The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c20.39

c20.39

Other imports from or through Persia may be ascribed to the end of the third or to the second millennium B.C. Notable amongst them is a bronze shaft-hole axe-adze of a type which survived until after 1000 B.C., from a high level of Mohenjo-daro (above, p. 55). Socketed single-bladed axes with Persian and Mesopotamian analogues, have been found at Chanhu-daro in the late Harappan or Jhukar phase, at Shahi-tump in southern Baluchistan, and, in the form of two pottery models, at Mohenjo-daro, and appear to centre upon 2000 B.C., but with wide brackets. To the same general period, though with later emphasis, belongs a bronze or copper mace-head from the late Harappan or Jhukar phase of Chanhu-daro; the nearest analogy is from Luristan, where a date rather after than before 1400 B.C. may be conjectured in the absence of direct evidence.¹