Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.26

c11.26

The composite title adopted, the Amri-Nal Culture, indicates the two extremes of variation which can be seen in an otherwise allied group of pottery types, which can be divided into three phases. The earliest typologically (though, as will be seen, not perhaps chronologically in all instances) is represented at Amri in Sind, where characteristic ware was first identified by Majumdar, the latest by the cemetery of Nal in Baluchistan excavated by Hargreaves; and the site of Nuṅdara, discovered by Stein in South Baluchistan, is a convenient representative of a middle phase. It is clear, however, that these pottery types are really linked, and this, with other factors (notably the absence of clay figurines of animals or humans in all three phases), seems to justify their treatment under one inclusive head.