Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.24

c12.24

In the first place, there is a certain proportion of painted pottery in the Harappā Culture side by side with the mass-produced utilitarian pots of unpainted wares, and these painted wares, with the designs in black on a deep, lustrous red background, suggest that the main relationships should lie with the red-ware group of cultures in North Baluchistan, rather than those using the buff wares of the southern region. But direct connexion is in the present state of our knowledge impossible to prove, though the small amount of material available from the recent (1946) excavations at Harappā shows that the first town on that site overlies a settlement of people using pottery which appears to belong to the North Baluchistan group, in that phase of development seen in the IIIc phase at Rana Ghundai (Fig. 20). The mature Harappā Culture in the Punjab, then, is subsequent to RG IIIc.