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EXCAVATION AT BESNAGAR, DISTT. VIDISHA

The microlithic industry of this period is represented by two traditions, viz., slender ribbon blades of chalcolithic origin and short blades of the neolithic. Other important finds from the period include: terracotta bulls and mother goddess, mostly from lower levels. The sequence of culture obtained in five season's dig is as follows:

Period I A : Pre-pottery microliths (non-geometric)

Period I yielded black-and-red and black-slipped wares along with plain red ware, animal-bones and iron objects.

Period I B : Pre-pottery microliths (non-geometric and geometric)

Period II A : Chalcolithic with three sub-phases (circa eighteen hundred to eleven hundred B.C.)

Period II B : Chalcolithic and Painted Grey Ware (circa eleven hundred to nine hundred B.C.)

Period III A : Pre-Northern Black Polished Ware (circa nine hundred to five hundred B.C.)

Period III B : Northern Black Polished Ware (circa five hundred to two hundred B.C.)

Period III C : Sunga-Satavahana (circa two hundred B.C. to the beginning of the first century A.D.)

Period IV A : Naga-Kushana (first century to third century A.D.)

Period IV B : Kshatrapa-Gupta (third century to fifth century A.D.)

Period V : Early Medieval (ninth century to eleventh century A.D.)

Period VI : Late Medieval-Modern (eighteenth century to early twentieth century A.D.)