An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c11.s25.2

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The earliest specimen goes back to the Harappa [4.9] period. Apart from Harappa, Mohenjo-daro and Chanhu-daro, sites like LOTHAL, SURKOTADA and KALIBANGAN have yielded a number of specimens of single-holed whorls. Belonging to a slightly later period are the finds from the Neolithic-Chalcolithic [4.6, 4.14] sites like INAMGAON, BAGOR, AHAR² and CHIRAND. Their popularity continued in the early Iron Age. At ALAMGIRPUR they have been reported from the PGW [4.15] levels. At HASTINĀPURA they occur in the levels of the early centuries of the Christian era. Outside the subcontinent they have been reported from Ghassul and Megiddo in Palestine, Naqada in Egypt and Troy in Greece—all in levels belonging to the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C.