The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t4.34

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In view of the close association in time and space of these two cultures, whose movements into the Deccan peninsula can be traced by a number of well-spaced excavations, one is tempted to observe that it is not possible to make a fine theoretical distinction between copper and iron, at least in Central India. At best we can postulate two very closely-spaced movements. It is very interesting to note that the inter-mingling of these two cultural elements in Malwa and their co-existence is vouched by the evidence north of the Vindhyas. But curiously, this association does not persist in Maharashtra, and the earliest levels both at Nasik and Nevasa have not shown the association of the Black-and-Red ware. Here, as in Malwa, the Early Historic Period is characterized by the use of the same pottery with N.B.P. This raises grave issues of chronology and inter-relations, which await further stratigraphic evidence. Probably the 'Vindhyan Complex' can account for this curious phenomenon.