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So far as the discovery of metals and the development of metals technology is concerned the universal opinion is that the focal point of these discoveries is Iran and its nearby area and in India the metals technology has been introduced by Aryans or Hittites who migrated from that area, but in a recent lecture Sharma,R.S.(1988) has opined that Aryans were originally Indians and most of the discovery of metals technology is indigenous. It is an universal belief that native metals like Gold, Copper and probable Meteoritic Iron have been the first to be discovered as early as 6000 to one million years before Christ.