Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.s1.10

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The end of the RG IIIc phase seems to be violent - as we shall see in Chapter VI, there is evidence of burning, and the site may have been sacked - and at all events in RG IV and V we encounter quite different traditions in pot-making, and the continuous sequence from RG II to IIIc is broken. Before discussing these later phases, however, we can broaden our knowledge of the RG III period as a whole by considering the evidence from those other sites which have yielded pottery referable to one or more of the three sub-phases of RG III, notably Periano Ghundai, which in the main seems to be RG IIIc, and the settlement site at Nal into which the later cemetery was dug, which on the few