Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c16.s3.1

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The Jorwe Culture flourished in the semi-arid zone of the Deccan plateau. The cradle of this culture was Pravara-Godāvari Valley from where they spread towards the north in the Tapti Valley and towards the south in the Bhima Valley. Thus, their inhabitations are found on the bank of a major river or its tributary. The distributional pattern of the Jorwe settlements indicate that there were three main groups of concentration in the Tapti, Godāvari and the Bhima Valley, and each of these regions had at least one representative large site. Thus we have Prakash in the Tapti Valley, Daimabad in the Godāvarī Valley and Inamgaon in the Bhima Valley. Apart from this, a large number of Jorwe sites have been brought to light through excavation, i.e., Nevasa, Bahal, Nasik, Chandoli, Songaon and Ināmgāon which are all located in Maharashtra. The Jorwe painted pottery found at Navdatoli in Central India and as far down south as T. Nasirpur near Mysore in Karnataka indicates the cultural contact between the Jorwe people with the Malwa people in the north and the neolithic farmers in the south. (Agarwal and Chakrabarti, 1979: 251-52)