An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c29.78

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*Dating.* Five ¹⁴C determinations, all obtained from uncharred bones, are available. These are (all B.P.): Phase I + 6430 ± 200, 5785 ± 130, 5235 ± 90; Phase II, ± 4715 ± 105, 4060 ± 90. Though no dates are available from the lowermost levels of Phase I it may not be unreasonable to put the beginning of this Phase around 5000 B.C. The beginning of Phase II can be put around the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. because archaeological evidence does not justify expecting copper tools and pottery before that date in this area. The end of this phase cannot securely be dated owing to lack of ¹⁴C determinations but it is tentatively put around 1000 B.C. Pd II, because of the presence of iron tools and pottery with Mauryan and Kushan period affinities, can be dated between 500 B.C. and A.D. 200 or even slightly later.