An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c10.s1.20

v1.c10.s1.20

On the basis of the circumstantial association of the OCW [11.5] which has been found in pre-PGW [11.14] levels and 'may well antedate 1200 B.C.' the Copper Hoards [4.11] have been dated before the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. (Lal, 1951, pp. 20-31; 1953, p. 93). At the same time some of the items from among the Copper Hoards were connected with examples from the Caucasus region and Iran (Allchin and Allchin, 1968, pp. 152-3). In fact analogies were noticed with Iranian types in some of pottery and designs of the Chalcolithic cultures of c. India and the Deccan [4.14.5, 6] which was also used as evidence corroborating the chronology as inferred from stratigraphical position of the Chalcolithic deposits in relation to datable historical period deposits.