An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c28.490

v2.c28.490

The cultural equipment mainly includes objects of copper and semiprecious stones. We may infer on the basis of the entire complex that the Pd represents the settlement in the upper Ganga valley of a people whose culture had an affinity with the Chalcolithic cultures of the upper Deccan [4.146] on one hand and of the Banas [4.14.1] on the other. (But the absence of stone tools precludes the classification of the culture as chalcolithic.) The semiprecious stones could have been brought from the Ranthambor region in Rajasthan. Since the nearest source of copper is also not far form that region it is likely that both copper and these stones were brought from the neighbourhood of Ranthambor.