Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.4

c12.4

The variety in styles and techniques among the products of the Baluchistan communities – the strongly individualized groups of pottery types, for instance – permits us to visualize the existence of little peasant states, each more or less self-contained, within a natural area such as the Zhob Valley, or those of the Kolwa and Maskai. The similarities we can detect between the localized cultures are the outcome of common necessities among farming peoples working a difficult land; there is no evidence of any uniform arbitrary standards accepted or imposed throughout the territory. The settlements of the Amri folk in Sind repeat the story of Baluchistan - another localized culture with its own traditions in the household crafts and, one suspects, in other less tangible aspects of its life as well.