Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c12.25

c12.25

⁴⁶ The map seems to me to be decisively against the opposite view that the Indian axes were 'derived ultimately from the neolithic stoneworking techniques of the Middle East and Iran'. F. R. Allchin as cited in no. 39, p. 325. Of course China may have got its axe-types from western Asia by some trans-continental route like the later Silk Route. But there is at present no connecting evidence.