Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.144

c11.144

Finally, there are a few miscellaneous objects in the Kulli Culture to be mentioned before discussing its place in the Indian and Western Asian setting. Stone saddle-querns and riders from Kulli attest corn-growing; chert blades from Shahi-tump and Mazena-damb are comparable to those in the Amri-Nal Culture and seem to be archaistic survivals. Beads including lapis-lazuli and agate were found at Kulli, and from this site also came an odd ‘ritual pillar’ of polished purple-red and white variegated stone, 8 inches high and 4 inches in diameter at the base. From Mehi comes a cubical banded grey chert weight, 0.85 inches square and 0.6 inches thick, of exactly the Harappā type, and a clear example of an import which in its very associations suggests traders in Baluchistan. Clay bangles occurred at Mehi and Siah Damb, and bone fragments came from Kulli. A bone stud with a drilled cruciform design occurred among the grave-goods in the Mehi cemetery, and finally we may note a single fragment of sheet gold from Kulli.