A History of Agriculture in India v1.c23.s2.13

v1.c23.s2.13

It appears that the earliest Chirandians were not merely hunter-gatherers. They also cultivated foodgrains. Among the debris occur charred grains of rice, paddy husk, wheat, barley, pea and green-gram. Paddy-husk impressions on some of the pieces of burnt clay as also some grains of charred rice indicate the use of that cereal by the inhabitants. The rice grains belong to both the cultivated and wild *Oryza sativa* and *O. rufipogon*. The assemblage, as a whole, indicates an advanced stage of neolithic economy.