The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t4.35

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Besides, by about 1000 B.C. iron had spread almost to the borders of Pakistan. Gowland² has already pointed out that a transition from copper to iron is not very difficult. Whereas copper would require temperatures in the neighbourhood of 1100 F. for smelting, it is possible to extract iron from the ores at about 700 F. He also referred to the existence of primitive open furnaces in south India.