Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.137

c7.137

Again, to the bracket 1200-1000 B.C. and to a western origin Heine-Geldern would ascribe both the celebrated bronze dagger of about the 12th century B.C. found at Fort Munro in the Sulaiman Range west of the Indus, and a copper trunnion-axe from the Kurram valley on the Afghan border.60 These and other scattered objects, of indubitably western (Iranian or Caucasian) type but often of disputed date, are at least sufficient to suggest infiltration into north-western India in the centuries closely following the end of the Indus Civilization, and may be associated by the temerarious with the Aryan movement from Iran and Afghanistan into the Punjab. But proof is distant.