Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.95

c11.95

The discussion of the pottery from the Kulli settlements is complicated by the presence of varied traditions which cannot be separated stratigraphically. Majumdar saw the danger of considering the material from Mehi as necessarily of one period, and stylistic considerations suggest that there are two ceramic strains, representing an earlier painted ware local to the region on which impinged a plain ware, manifestly an offshoot of the Harappā Culture. Of these two, the decorated pottery alone should perhaps be credited with the title ‘Kulli’, and the hybrid types which are formed with this and the Harappā ware, be distinguished as a ‘Mehi’ phase, from the site where it is best represented. But it is safer to separate out only the unmistakable Harappā ware and to treat the hybrids along with the rest of the painted pottery.