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Dunaria in Pal Lahara in Orissa. It is 72 inches long, 64 inches wide and nearly sinch thick at the butt end. The cutting edge, however, is not sharp. Though it is a shouldered type but it differs from other specimens” in respect of the concavity of the sides.
Apart from these, there are a number of finds recorded of copper implements of proto-historic period in the adjoining regions to Orissa, as would be clear from the table on pages 76-77 :Cultural Aspect---Problem of
In recent years, the study of these objects has gained a fresh momentum. Professors Stuart Piggot3 and R. Heine Geldern* have put them on an 'internaltional footing' by citing parallels from beyond the frontiers of India-Hissar and Anan in Persia, and Caucasia in Southern Russia. R. Heine Geldern believes that these finds are infact traces of the Indo-Aryan migration, and hence, it is the Vedic Aryans who produced these objects. Stuart Piggott too made a similar observation earliar in 1944.5 Later on, however, he modified his views, and associated the copper hoards with refugees from Harappa after its break up. He thus gave up his earlier theory of associating the copper hoards with the Aryans.
1. Ancient India, Vol. VII, 1951, p. 29, PI. XB., Fig. 3, No. 8.
2. Ibid, Fig. 3, No. 5. ; 3. Prehistoric Copper Hoards in the Gangetic Basin, ANTIQUITY,
1944, No. 72, pp. 173-82. 4. Archaeological Traces of the Vedic Aryang-Journal of the
Indian Society of Oriental Art, IV, 1936, pp. 87-113 ; New light on the Aryan Migration to India, Bulletin American Institute
for Iranian Art and Archaeology, V, June 1937, pp. 7-16. 5. Prehistoric Copper Hoards in the Gangetic Basin, ANTIQUITY.
1944, No. 72, p. 180. 8. Prehistoric India, 1950, p. 238.
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