The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t2.61

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agriculture and cattle breeding. We have the earliest evidence of rice cultivation in this period. Other finds included copper arrowheads, nail parer, sickles, antimony rods, weights of chert and jasper, bangles and bone points. This occupation seems to have been abandoned owing to floods, indicated by the erosion of the face of the mound. After a break, the third period marks the advent of the N.B.P. and iron (barbed arrow heads, chisel, sickle, latch, etc.). The people built fine burnt brick houses. The next phase falls well into the historic period indicated by Sunga coins etc. At present the Grey ware seems to have spread over the Upper Indus and the Gangetic basins.