Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.147

c11.147

There is further evidence from Sind, which gives the reverse side of the interchange of painted motifs and styles on the pottery. At Rohel-jo-Kund in the Gaj Valley and at Ghazi Shah near Lake Manchhar, animals painted in the Kulli style appear on pots which are not themselves Kulli ware. At the former site they seem to be some form of the Amri-Nal group, and at Ghazi Shah they are vessels with a background of bright red slip typical of the painted wares of the Harappā Culture. At this site the stratification shows that a settlement with Amri ware was followed by one making or at least using black-on-red painted ware, sometimes with the Kulli type of animals and spiky trees, but also with other motifs characteristic of Mohenjo-daro and Harappā. So by these interesting borrowings between pot-painters we can get a fair idea that Kulli and Harappā were, by and large, flourishing side by side, and we have already seen that the decorated stone pots found in South Baluchistan and associated with the Kulli Culture were also occasionally imported to the Indus Valley.