The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t7.35

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4. Is it possible to look for such a contact (pottery and megalithic ritual) in Central India? In Malenesia, the square axe with cut side (Vierkantbeil) is associated with the megalith.¹ It is possible that the meeting of these two traits black-and-red pottery and this megalithic cult took place in Central India about the middle of the 1st millennium B.C. before their movement into South India? This would probably meet the possible objection from linguistic as well as archaeological evidence. But this problem requires very careful investigation and this hypothesis is put forward to stimulate further studies.