An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c26.525

v1.c26.525

Waztal, menhirs at, 116 weapon, 110, 115, 122, 125, 126, 136, 139, 140, 141, 147, 151, 332; bronze, 116; copper, 91; copper hoards, 350-52; Harappa, 349-50; later periods, 352-58 Weber, 366 wedges, 45, 66, 111 weeds and forage plants, 8 Weichselian glacial, 194 weights, 319; and measures, 84, 89, 190-91; cubical, 71, 73, 76, 244 well(s), 145, 150, 156; and ring-wells, 303-306 Wendland and Donley's formula, 169 West Bengal, 56, 94, 99, 171, 240, 300; Copper Hoards from, 92; farming communities in, 44; wheeled animal heads in, 339; *see also* Bengal Western Kṣatrapa coins, 146 Western region (Rajasthan and Gujarat), culture in, 16 wharf, 132, 149, 151 wheat, 103, 105, 109, 122, 147; carbonized grains of, 140; *see also Triticum* wheat and barley, cultivation of, 47 Wheeler, M., 58, 70, 75, 79, 86, 88, 115, 126, 254, 255, 257 Wheeler, M. and Krishna Deva, 251, 253, 254, 256 Wheeler, R.E.M., 186, 251 wheel(s), 90, 136, 137, 138, 335, 336, 337 wheeled toy(s), 336 whetstone(s), Neolithic-Chalcolithic culture, 337 Wilson, 366 Wima Kadphises, 13; Mathura statue of, 138 wires, 325 wolf *see Canis lupus* wood remains, 8-9 wooden tablets, 14 worked bones, 35 Worman Jr, E.C., 58 writing, 107, 108, 140, 151; beginnings of, 139; invention of, 84; pre-Semitic form of, 366 writing material, *ajina* (skin of an antelope ortiger), 360; Kharoṣṭhī votive inscription, 300; leather documents, 360; white cotton stuff and silk, 360; woven linen cloth, 360 Wurm glaciation, 17