Srinivasan, Sharada
(2025)
Iron Age Tamil Nadu a Harappan legacy?: AMS dates and XRF on early iron, high-tin bronze, gold and high-carbon steel.
Journal of Conservation of Cultural Property in India, 43 (Sep25).
pp. 12-20.
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This paper explores the implications of recent AMS dating in the understanding of the Iron Age in Tamil Nadu with respect to the emergence of the metallurgy. It touches upon not only the non-ferrous copper-bronze and gold repertoire but also for ferrous metallurgy for which the dates seem to rank amongst the earliest known particularly at coastal urn burial sites. It is pointed out that such early dates for the penetration of metallurgy, could be explained if there had been a coastal impetus from the Harappan region with the adventitious or accidental emergence of iron smelting by copper smelters experimenting with more available iron ores around coastal Tamil Nadu. |
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School of Humanities > Archaeology |
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Schools > Humanities |
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