Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.145

c11.145

When we come to a comparative assessment of the Kulli Culture, we see, as far as information is available, that the few settlements of which we have knowledge differ in no way from those of the Amri-Nal Culture, nor indeed from the smaller peasant communities of Mesopotamia or Persia. The Harappā element is much more strongly defined in Kulli than in Amri-Nal, taking the form of actual imports and evidence which implies the presence of Harappā traders in South Baluchistan, but nevertheless there is no trace of the burnt brick architecture which is so characteristic of actual Harappā settlements wherever they occur. As we shall see, at least one Harappā trading-post containing burnt brick buildings is known in the Makran, but at Mehi, apart from modifications of the local pot-painting styles, the connexions with Harappā are no more than could be provided by the visits of caravans and the occasional sojourn of merchants in the town. There is good evidence that trade exchanges did take place, and goods and even people found their way from the Baluchistan hills to the Indus plain.