[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v1.c9.s14.13 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s14.13 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s14.13 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c9.s14.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.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. - [Previous: v1.c9.s14.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s14.12) - [Next: v1.c9.s14.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s14.14) - [Up: v1.c9.s14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s14) ## Linked texts (1) - [Gilund](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.gilund) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s14.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s14.13) · Pramāṇa