Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.34

c13.34

It is convenient here to say a few words about the Jhangar Culture, which at Chanhu-daro III appears as a final occupation of the site after the Jhukar settlement. Little enough is known of the culture, recognized only here and at the type-site, and also in Sind, except that it marks a break with the old painted pottery traditions, and has instead a grey or black ware with incised ornament. The pottery looks primitive, but its date is wholly unknown, and it may represent a purely local culture restricted to a small tribe or two, and may be not earlier than the first few centuries B.C. At Jhangar itself, apparently associated with the primitive ware, were sherds which look suspiciously like pottery of Sunga date, about the second or third century B.C.