The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c17.s5: Conclusion
The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c17.s5
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Conclusion
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The foregoing discussion, as well as some of the issues raised in the main text, call forth greater and intensive studies. But at the present, it may be stated, our knowledge supports a hypothesis of this ceramic fabric belonging to a single complex and its relation to the associated cultures remains to be ascertained by further excavations in certain crucial areas. The desiderata may be stated as follows:
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1. The distribution of the black-and-red wares in the North and their stratigraphic relation to the Chalcolithic cultures of the Indus basin including Bikaner and the Punjab, and Kathiawad, Central India and Northern and Central Deccan. Besides their relation to the Grey wares is to be ascertained by excavations in the Bikaner area. (Fig 39)
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2. The distribution of megaliths north of the Vindhyas and a fresh excavation of Junapani and Thakurghat stone circles near Nagpur.
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3. The general question of the typology of iron tools in the North and the South. Most of the types are common, the only distinctive and exclusive (at the present stage of our knowledge) being the shaft-hole⁶ axe at Taxila and the adze with a ring fastener, supposed to be a megalithic type. But the later occurs at Junapani. The former occurs in the Mauryan period and hence does not pre-suppose any independent origin, but only a general spread from Western Asia. Hence more elaborate studies are needed so that the co-ordination becomes easy. Since the movement of other associated material objects like painted pottery and blade technique can be demonstrated, this becomes all the more important.
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⁶ According to Dr. H. D. Sankalia, a shaft-hole axe was found at Nevasa in their Phase II which is contemporary with the N. B. P. I am grateful to him for this information.