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

2003/09/01 by Rakesh Tewari · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Eurasian Exchange Networks

paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00092590

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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

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