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INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.—A “Note on Prehistoric Antiquities including Antiquities from Mohen-j o-daro” by Mr. Ramaprasad Chanda, Superintendent of the Archaeological Section of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, which was written for a visit to the Museum made by the Viceroy in December last, gives a valuable bird's -eye view of the archaeology of India as illustrated by exhibits in the Museum. The specimens include palaeoliths from the Deccan, the Central Indian Plateau, Rajputana, and Eastern India. These approach most nearly to the Chellean and Acheulean types. Typical neoliths have been collected from nearly all the provinces of India. Of the remains of the Copper Age, which followed the Neolithic in Northern and Central India, the most remarkable are the hoard from Gungeria, Central Provinces, consisting of 424 hammered copper implements and 102 thin silver plates, and a find of nine double axes from the Gulpha River in the Mayurbhanj State. Antiquities found at Mohen-j o-daro and Harappa are now on loan in the Museum, among them being the seals with the unknown pictographic script, the pottery, and other objects which, it is suggested, show Sumerian affinities. It is not generally known that three seals showing this pictographic script were discovered at Harappa in 1872 and in the 'eighties of the last century and were presented to the British Museum, where they are now exhibited.
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Research Items. Nature 115, 474–476 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115474a0
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