Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.152

c12.152

Turning now from the minor arts and crafts to more basic manufactures, we must consider first the pottery. The reader has no doubt felt a certain relief in the escape from the minutiae of pottery styles and ornament that had to occupy so much of Chapter IV, but we cannot altogether leave out of account the pottery of the Harappā civilization, even if it does not have the overwhelmingly important place in the culture that it has in the less fully explored communities of Baluchistan, where so much depends on local ceramic variants in detecting cultural differences.