[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950) › c13.26 # Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.26 Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.26 - **Language:** English ### [c13.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c13.26) The material culture represented among these primitive habitations includes abundant and characteristic pottery; stamp-seals; amulets; beads; metal tools and pins; bone awls and a pottery head-rest (Fig. 27). It is altogether a curious and distinctive assemblage, contrasting strongly with that of the Harappā Culture it supplants, and yet not without clear contact with it. The pottery is a buff ware, with a varied repertoire of ornament painted on it in black and red. The forms include small-footed jars and bottles of types which have general parallels in Baluchistan, but the offering-stands and saucers with a looped pattern on the edge must derive either from Harappā or from the Kulli Culture in its Harappā-influenced phase. The range of ornament is quite varied, and employs geometric and stylized plant forms which in general have a strong resemblance to the trees on Kulli ware. Other simple geometric patterns accompanied with broad horizontal bands of plum red recall the Amri style; close-set chevrons in black and bright red can be paralleled precisely on a sherd from Zayak in South Baluchistan, where other patterns too can be matched - the multiple loops and ball-and-stem motifs of Jhukar, for instance, occur at Sar-Parom and Jai-damb. And one of the two animal representations at Chanhu-daro is really not unlike one from Periano-ghundai in North Baluchistan. - [Previous: c13.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c13.25) - [Next: c13.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c13.27) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c13) ## Cites (5) - [Chanhu-daro](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.chanhu-daro) - [Amri](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.amri) - [Pēriāno-ghuṇḍai](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.periano-ghundai) - [Kulli](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.kulli) - [Jai damb](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.jai-damb) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c13.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c13.26) · Pramāṇa