Copper in Ancient India c7.s2.4

c7.s2.4

Mr. Vincent A. Smith has dealt with the question of the probable date of the copper age in Northern India and concludes that all the Indian copper implements are certainly extremely old and must be dated previous to 1000 B.C. Probably they are much earlier “and that the primitive celts of Northern India, which are obviously copies of Neolithic patterns, may be as old as 2000 B.C.” He further writes “the guess hazarded above as to the possible date of the northern examples has really little foundation, being largely based upon the dates assumed for Ireland.”