An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c10.s1.11

v1.c10.s1.11

The tenuous links of the e. Neolithic culture [4.6.6] characterized by the shouldered axe, bar-chisel or adze with that of the S.-E. Asia, the presence of barcelt, shouldered hoe, splayed axe and rectangular chisel in stone which could be considered as prototypes in stone of the Copper Hoard [4.11] objects and the association of the shouldered type of hoe in NBPW [4.16] levels at Kauśāmbī and Rajgir and ‘the seeming association of e. Neolithic of axes with black-and-red ware at Jaugada’ and confirmed at Sonpur in Bihar (Krishnaswami, 1960, pp. 62-3) would place the dates of the middle Ganga [4.6.4] and n. Deccan [4.6.7] Neolithic culture between the middle of the 2nd millennium b.c. and middle of the 1st millennium b.c.