Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.83

c11.83

In Sind there is a certain amount of direct stratigraphical evidence for fixing the position of Amri ware at least in relation to the Harappā Culture. At the type-site of Amri itself, at Ghazi Shah, Lohri and Pandi Wahi, the stratified sequence showed on each site an earlier occupation with Amri ware (and a small proportion of Nal types), later superseded by a Harappā Culture settlement. At Pai-jo-Kotiro in the Gaj Valley, however, the two cultures seem to be mixed, and chronologically indistinguishable. At Ghazi Shah the later occupation is of extreme interest as containing not only Harappā types of black-on-red pottery, but others which show motifs derived from Kulli sources, and on one pot even Nundara (or Nal) patterns painted on in black on a strong red background. This all suggests that there was approximate contemporaneity between at least the later phases of the Amri-Nal Culture and that of Kulli and perhaps with the earlier settlements of the Harappā Culture in Sind; further Kulli influence is perceptible at Rohel-jo-Kund in the Gaj Valley on sherds contemporary with Nundara or Nal styles, and on several other sites in Sind. But in the Nal cemetery, as we have seen, there is clear evidence of contact with the Harappā Culture, and for what it is worth there is a single sherd of Nal ware from the post-Harappā (Jhukar Culture) level at the site of Lohumjo-daro.