Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.23

c11.23

The pottery recovered from these sites is, however, of great interest (Fig. 3). It belongs to the *Buff-ware* group, and is painted in a fine, assured, free style in a purplish-brown (‘black’) paint. No use is made of a second colour (e.g. red), and we shall see that this is a most unusual feature in Baluchistan, where two-colour schemes in black-and-red are very usual. The shapes of the pots, where these can be recovered, include beakers with a slightly flaring mouth, rather squat biconical or globular bowls, shallow dishes, and at least one fragment of a raised foot-stand perforated with triangular openings. The ware ranges from pinkish-white to greenish (from over-baking), and there are one or two fragments from fine shallow bowls of grey, very hard ware with black painted ornament.