An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c15.s1.12
An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c15.s1.12
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Similarly no evidence regarding furnaces has been available in the Mauryan levels, though the Ganga valley sites of this period like KUMRAHAR, ŚRĀVASTĪ, KAUŚĀMBĪ, RAJGHAT⁴ and several others have given an enormous number of beads especially in semiprecious stones. The leech-shaped, the triangular barrel and the truncated bicone square are the typical shapes of this period.