The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t7.94

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The third phase at Somnath marks the end of the Proto-historic sequence, and the beginning the Early Historic period with black-and-red ware and Iron. Of its four sub-periods, N.B.P. appears in the 2nd and gives a fairly solid datum, as it can be ascribed to the Mauryan expansion into Kathiawad. This sequence neatly ties up with that at Timbarva in Gujarat¹ and Ujjain and Maheshvar and a number of minor antiquities also supports this comparative stratigraphy (500-100 B.C.).