History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c15.s4.t3.1

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The Jorwe culture, named after the type site in Dist. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, was accidentally discovered in 1950 but its chronological position was fixed by the excavation at Nasik where the remains of this culture were found in the lowest levels assignable to the first half of the first millenium B.C. A number of Jorwe settlements have since been excavated during the last thirty years which has increased our knowledge of the material culture of these first farmers of Maharashtra. They were spread almost all over the present state of Maharashtra save the coastal strip of Konkan on the west and parts of Vidarbha in the east. A series of radio-carbon determinations suggest that the culture can now be dated to Circa 1400-1000 B.C.