An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c38.137

v2.c38.137

The other interesting finds include quartzite pebbles, a rhinoceros shoulder blade with pits, perhaps used as an anvil, a hammerstone, two small ground-stone axes of chlorite-schist and a large quartzite ring stone, probably used as a mace-head or a weight for a digging stick. Either the cultural remains indicate a stage of ‘incipient cultivation’, or the presence in the later period of pottery as well as copper and iron tools suggests cultural contacts with the other settled contemporary Chalcolithic [4.14] and Iron Age [4.16] communities.