History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c11.s2.t4.5

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The most *beautiful* examples of the Chalcolithic craft are the cast axes from Kayatha. Most Chalcolithic metal artifacts, however, are of simple, non-diagnostic types. The main forms are beads, nails, rods, wires, fishhooks, rings, flat celts, and daggers. The Chandoli dagger has been compared with the antennae- hilted sword from Fatehgarh, but we consider that there are very important technological differences between the two. The total length-to-blade ratio in the Chandoli-dagger is only 1:6, compared to 1:5 in the Fatehgarh example, the tang was cut with a chisel and the incipient antennae so produced do not compare at all with the 10-15cm long, cast antennae of the Copper Hoards types.