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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
While reviewing our book—Report on the Excavations at Nasik and Jorve—Dr. Allchin has raised a very important point. He says that the “legged grinding stools” found at Nasik and ascribed by us to period II A “would have been happier in II B or even III”. The question is when an object is found in a well-stratified deposit in a lower layer, should it be dated to a later period because at some place—here Sirkap II—it has been found in a later period, or should the entire layer be dated to the later period even though well-sealed by an upper layer? In this particular case the legged quern has undoubtedly a comparatively short duration as pointed out by Sankalia much earlier; but it is very widely spread in India. This immediately cautions us to be careful in assigning a date to objects found nearly 1,500 miles apart.
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