Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c17.s3.10

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Although copper hoard by itself did not signify any ‘cultural’ pattern, this technology probably coincided in age with the pre-PGW Ochre washed Pottery tradition in the Doab as suggested from the Hastināpura excavation and the Pāṇḍu Rājār Dhibi culture in Bengal. The latter culture must have been indigenous. It is marked by painted BRW and also Black-on-Red wares covered by a time bracket of 1500-800 BC. Bharatpur, Pāṇḍu Rājār Dhibi, Mahishadal, where copper celt was found, were some of the principal sites showing links with other chalcolithic cultures e.g. copper-hoard tradition, Malwa/Navdatoli tradition of the Central India, and the second millennium chalcolithic culture of South-East Asian countries such as Thailand (Solheim, 1967). S.P. Gupta beautifully summarised (Gupta, 1965: 7):