The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t5.4

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The further extension of this culture has been amply demonstrated by the excavation of Bahal on the Girna, a tributary of the Tapi, by M. N. Deshpande and of Nasik on the Godavary and Jorwe and Nevasa on the Pravara by Dr. Sankalia. At all these sites, we find the same type of painted pottery and the specialized blade technique in association with copper. Besides, we know a large number of similar sites yielding the same assemblage. The most important evidence is furnished by the last-mentioned excavation at Nevasa where, for the first time, we see the association of polished stone axes with this culture, suggesting the possibility of its contact with the lower basins of the Krishna and the Godavary.