The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c15.2
The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c15.2
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c15.2
Tin is a more difficult problem. It is absent from Baluchistan and rare in India, though old workings are said to exist in the Hazāribagh district of Bengal and it was known anciently in Afghanistan. Whether the admixture of tin with copper to produce bronze was an original feature of the Indus civilization is unknown in the deficiency of stratified material.¹