An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.60

v2.c40.60

The evolved phase (*c.* 1500 B.C) at Site 46, which again did not develop out of the earlier tradition in the valley, showed predominance of the burnished grey ware over the red ware, occurrence of Neolithic tools of various types, microliths on rock crystal, quartzite flakes, disc beads of paste, steatite and shell, workings on bone or horn, large quantities of animal bones, pits of various sizes and urn burials for infants at the habitation site. The semisubterranean dwellings were in vogue alongside houses, mostly rectangular on plan, built on thick poles. Ascribable to this phase was the upper stratum of the cemetery at Site 68 revealing both extended inhumation and post-excarnation burials, accompanied as usual by burial pots. In this phase also the people were not wholly sedentary, as a good number of pits were found to have been packed with boulders after their use for some time. The Neolithic tool types, which included axes, adzes, elongated celts, shoe-last celts, weeding hoes, picks, sometimes with twin working ends, chisels, axe-cum-hammers, side-choppers, fabricators, etc., showed that these were used not merely for carpentry but also for tillage operations. That the people stock-breeding is evident from the animal bones, including those of cattle.