Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.27

c13.27

In general, then, the Jhukar pottery from the Sind sites seems to combine a variety of elements, in which Kulli and probably Harappā motifs predominate, with an underlying Amri strain. It is, in fact, just what might be expected from a native, non-Harappā substratum in the local population, with a certain infusion of novel strains from South Baluchistan. Isolated motifs could be traced farther west - for example the plant form with double-spirals occurs in Sialk III and in Hissar Ib, but it then turns up again in the late cemetery of Jiwanri in the Makran referred to below. On the whole there seems no reason to regard Jhukar pottery as anything but a native product arising out of the disturbed conditions and folk-movements after the fall of the Harappā empire, when refugee tribes were leaving Baluchistan and settling in Sind.