Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.25

c12.25

Similar evidence is available from sites farther south. One of the Bahawalpur towns of the Harappā Culture overlies a settlement with black-on-buff ware, although this does not seem to be closely allied to any of the Baluchistan wares known to us at present, but at three prehistoric villages in Sind, settlements with pottery of the Amri class have been superseded by those of Harappā folk: this evidence fits in with what we know, or suspect, of the chronological position of Amri in the buff-ware sequence. There is further evidence that Harappā traders, and probably colonists, were in South Baluchistan at the time the Kulli Culture was flourishing there, and the cemetery at Nal seems to be that of people having some contacts with the civilization of the Indus and the Punjab. As this cemetery was dug into the ruins of a settlement of RG IIIc folk, this again fits in well with the evidence of stratigraphy at Harappā itself. It looks as though the urban culture of the plains was approximately contemporary with the hill peasantries making pottery in the style of Kulli, Nal, and Periano Ghundai; only approximately contemporary, as the Kulli style seems to have started before Harappā folk arrived in South Baluchistan, and that of Nal is likely to have gone on rather longer than the period of maximum prosperity of the Harappā kingdom.