The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t9.7

c14.s1.t9.7

According to Lal the earliest deposits at Sisupalgarh roughly belong the Mauryan period and thereabouts. In view of the more recent evidence about the date of the black-and-red wares and the date of the N.B.P., it is not unreasonable to assign slightly earlier dates to these levels. In the Department of Anthropology of the Calcutta University, there are two shouldered celts alleged to have come from Sisupalgarh.³ In the Museum at Bhuvaneshvar, there are nice shouldered and chipped celts from Athgarh (west of Cuttack) and Angur (Dhenkanal district) and Ranpur (Puri District).⁴ As already referred to, Tamluk in the Midnapore district has yielded evidence of an earlier ‘Stone axe culture’ being succeeded by the Gangetic valley influences indicated by the N.B.P. etc. Hence it is not unreasonable to infer a similar sequence in coastal Orissa.⁵