[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v1.c10.s1.11 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c10.s1.11 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c10.s1.11 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c10.s1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.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. - [Previous: v1.c10.s1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1.10) - [Next: v1.c10.s1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1.12) - [Up: v1.c10.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1) ## Linked texts (4) - [Kauśāmbī](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.kausambi) - [Jaugada](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.jaugada) - [Sonpur](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.sonpur) - [Rajgiri](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.rajgiri) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c10.s1.11) · Pramāṇa