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

Antiquity

Volumn 77, Issue 297, 2003, Pages 536-544

  Tewari, Rakesh ^a  

^a UP State Archaeological Department   (India)

Author keywords

Early Iron Age; Eastern Vindhyas; Ganga valley; India; Iron working

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; IRON; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

INDIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

EID: 0345149507     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00092590     Document Type: Article

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