Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.146

c11.146

These Harappā connexions imply, of course, that there was an approximate contemporaneity between the cultures in the two areas, and as far as can be deduced from the Harappā motifs, such as *pipal* leaves, introduced on the native pots, it looks as though this contact took place when the Kulli pot-painting style was well developed and perhaps even past its prime. At Shahi-tump there is stratigraphical evidence of a sort, for the three Kulli building levels (dated as approximately contemporary with Harappā by a bit of a cart-model to which reference has already been made) are themselves earlier than a cemetery that has been dug into the ruins of the last phase settlement. Now the Shahi-tump cemetery is, as we shall see, pretty well dated, and is contemporary with the end of the Harappā Culture in the Indus Valley, so this fits in well with the other evidence for the relative date of the Kulli Culture.