The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c17.s5.4

c17.s5.4

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.