An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s14.13

v1.c9.s14.13

Unlike the other contemporary farming cultures the people made little or no use of blade and microlithic tools [which are however reported from the earlier excavations at Ahar² (*IAR 1955-6*, p. 11) and Gilund (*ibid 1959-60*, p. 41)]. Instead they seem to have used metal tools more. Among the metal objects found are several copper flat axes, copper bangles, several copper sheets and a bronze sheet (from Ahar²) and fragments of copper (from Gilund). The discovery at Ahar² of a circular pit dug into the natural soil, 1·5 m in diameter and about 6 m deep and full of white ashes and metal-worker’s slag, attests to the practice of copper smelting and metallurgy from the beginning.