An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s6.t4.9

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Reference has been made above to three excavated sites—DAOJALI HADING in Dt N. Cachar, SARUTARU in Dt Kamrup and SELBALGIRI in Garo Hills. Situated on a densely forested hilltop, DAOJALI HADING excavated by the Gauhati Univ. during 1961-4, is a single-culture site with a deposit of 75 cm, with a large number of axes and adzes, grinding stones, querns and mealing troughs, mullers and pestles, byproduct flakes and pottery. Most of the axes and adzes are made on a kind of greyish indurated shale, there being a few on sandstone and fossil wood. The tools, fully ground and polished, are typologically divisible into tanged or shouldered celts, small triangular celts and quadrangular axes and adzes. The pottery, found only in fragments, is coarse, handmade and ill-baked, sometimes with cord mark. There is a small quantity of incised red ware of fine fabric. (Goswami *et al.*, 1963; Sharma, 1966a, 1967; Sankalia, 1974.)