Antiquity, September 1st, 2003
Introduction
The date and origin of the introduction of iron artefacts and iron working into India has remained a controversial research problem, not unconnected with the question of its association with the supposed arrival, in the second millennium BC, of immigrants from the west, as implied by the Rigveda. Around the middle of the last century, iron-working origins in India were dated c. 700-600BC (Gordon 1950; Wheeler 1959). Subsequently, a combination of an association with Painted Grey Ware (PGW) and the advent of radiocarbon dating began to push this date back towards the second mill...
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