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This paper deals with presence or absence of Iron Age materialculture and explores the development of Iron Age in northwest Kashmir (BaramullaDistrict). It has been noted from the previous surveys that a chronological gap existed(c. 1000 BCE – 100 CE), which roughly equates to the Iron Age in Kashmir (Yatoo 2005;Yatoo 2012). Furthermore, considering that there is very little evidence of Iron Agematerial culture from the few excavated (or explored) sites in Kashmir, there is adebate about the very presence of Iron Age in Kashmir. The little information we haveabout Iron Age material culture from key sites in Kashmir (such as a few sherds of NBPW,some iron artefacts and slag at one site), has been largely dismissed as imports andlacked serious attention by scholars. It was therefore difficult to build anycomparisons in the material culture for the present study. Instead the Iron Age materialculture in other parts of South Asia, such as the Indian plains and northern regions ofPakistan, are discussed, as these regions have documented evidence of iron and itsassociated material culture but very few have archaeometallurgical evidence.Furthermore, Kashmir historically had communication links with these regions in SouthAsia since the early third millennium BCE until the 10th century CE, so we might expectsome contact during the period of early iron production and use. Therefore, onekey issue for archaeology in northwest Kashmir in this paper is to understand the linkbetween the newly discovered slag and tuyeres with the key sites in Kashmir and in SouthAsia; and a further key issue is to determine whether or not there was a distinct IronAge in north west Kashmir (or whole of Kashmir), or whether the few recovered ironartefacts from key sites of Kashmir are indeed all imports

Iron Age Material Culture in South Asia – Analysis and Context of Recently Discovered Slag Sites in Northwest Kashmir (Baramulla District) in India