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Nashik Archaeological Site
The city of Nashik was first settled around 400 BCE during the Mahajanapadas period and was continuously inhabited until around 300 CE. It was then reoccupied and expanded in 1300. Both of these areas lie south east to the modern town. Excavations were conducted by Dr. Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia and Dr. Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo and the Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute in 1950-51. These excavations yielded finds at all levels of occupation, those oldest levels at the bottom revealed stone tools made by flaking and the resulting waste, orange colored pottery, and a few copper bangles and a crude bronze ax. Above this level are artifacts from India's earliest recorded historic period, here we have tools and weapons of iron, Northern Black Polished ware common at other sites such as Jorwe, and the ruins of mud walled houses and ring wells. The next level up is from the period of Roman contact where burnt mud bricks and terracotta tiles were common in construction, Red Polished bowls and sprinklers as well as sherds of Samian ware were found.