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The origins of iron working in India: new evidence from the Central Ganga Plain and the Eastern Vindhyas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Rakesh Tewari
Rakesh Tewari*
Affiliation:
U.P. State Archaeological Department, Roshan-ud-daula Kothi, Kaisarbagh, Lucknow 226 001 (U.P.) India (Email: [email protected])
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Abstract

Recent excavations in Uttar Pradesh have turned up iron artefacts, furnaces, tuyeres and slag in layers radiocarbon dated between 1800 and 1000 BC. This raises again the question of whether iron working was brought to India during supposed immigrations in the second millennium BC, or developed independently

Keywords

Early Iron AgeIndiaGanga Valleyiron workingEastern Vindhyas
Type
Research
Information
Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 297 , September 2003 , pp. 536 - 544
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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