Metallurgy, Materials & Chemistry
Ahar-Banas copper smelting
c. 3000-1500 BCEChalcolithic Rajasthan communitiesAhar, Gilund, Balathal (Rajasthan)Rajasthan
3,000 BCE
Copper smelting and tool-making from local Aravalli ores.
- Dated
- 3,000–1,500 BCE
- As scholars put it
- c. 3000-1500 BCE
- Originator
- Chalcolithic Rajasthan communities
- Source text
- Ahar, Gilund, Balathal (Rajasthan)
- Region
- Rajasthan
- Discipline
- Metallurgy, Materials & Chemistry
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- Medium
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Part of the Bronze-Age copper economy.
Fair to say
Supply links to the Indus are inferred.
Path to modern innovation
Evidence of early regional metallurgy.
Transmission
Likely supplied copper to Indus cities.
References
- 1V. Shinde
- 2Possehl & Raval (Gilund excavations)
Further reading
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