An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.87

v2.c46.87

Subsequent exploration in the neighbourhood of Tamluk by the Directorate of Arch., W. Bengal, has yielded a rich crop of Chalcolithic [4.14.4] pottery including white-painted black-and-red ware [11.6.5], microliths and a number of other antiquities from the eroded banks of the Rupnarayan river up to a distance of about 16 km from the town. The finds, now preserved in the Tamralipta Museum, include carnelian intaglios with non-Indian motifs and a unique bone harpoon, unilaterally barbed, which, in the n. Indian context, is assignable to the early part of the second millennium B.C. or earlier.