Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.118

c11.118

Outside the western boundaries of Baluchistan, and so strictly outside the bounds of this book, which is confined to prehistoric India, there are at least two sites which must be mentioned before leaving the discussion of Kulli pottery, as they show strong signs of contact and fusion between the old tradition of the painted wares of Fars, and of Persia generally, and that of Kulli ware. In the Bampur region of Persian Makran there are cemeteries and settlement sites, and settlements occur again in Sistan, which produce vessels with characteristic raised wavy bands between cordons, rows of stylized buck or ibexes, ‘tree’ motifs and an occasional naturalistic large-scale animal, all so reminiscent of Kulli ware as to suggest interchange of ideas and perhaps of actual population between the Mashkai-Kolwa region and that farther to the west. Stone vessels and their pottery imitations already referred to form yet another link between the two areas, and these are discussed at a later stage. Certain exceptional vessels with a high shoulder and a plain, bright red slip from the Khurab cemetery near Bampur again have exact parallels at Mehi, in the cemetery there, and in both places may owe their presence to the intrusive Red-ware traditions of the Harappā people.