Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.88

c11.88

While traces of its influence in pottery styles are perceptible into Eastern Persia, the culture does not appear to have crossed the mountain barrier eastwards into the Indus plain, though the influence of its pot-painting traditions are recognizable on alien wares in the Lake Manchhar region and in the Gaj Valley. Over most of the area of settlement in Baluchistan, Kulli ware is largely coincident with the Nundara and Nal wares of the Amri-Nal Culture, but it does not seem to occur in regions as far north as those inhabited by the makers of Nal ware between the type-site and the Bolan Pass, nor, as has been noted above, do its makers appear to have made the eastward move in Jhalawan which is attested by Nal ware in the Kolachi and Gaj Valleys. In addition to the distinctive character of the pottery forms and ornament, the Kulli Culture is given further definition, and its independent status *vis-à-vis* the Amri-Nal Culture is strengthened by a difference of burial rite and the abundance of clay figurines of women and animals on almost every site of the culture identified.