The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t1.26

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Coming further east, we find Amri providing a link with Harappan. While the former appears to underlie the latter at Amri, Lohri, Ghazi Shah and Pandiwahi, there is an evidence of an overlap or mixture at Pai-jo-kotiro in the Gaj Valley. But the more crucial culture, which shows more Harappan traits is that of Kulli *i.e.*, the presence of goddess figurines, bull figurines, and pipal leaf motif on pottery. In view of the curious combination of Harappan motifs, as well as the mixture of bulls, ibex, sigmas and comb patterns, Gordon thinks that "Kulli culture was of considerable duration and it had its contact with Harappa." According to Casal,² a culture with affinities to Kulli has been dated to 2650 plus or minus 300 B.C. In view of the great distance of Afghanistan from the sites we have been dealing with, one has to be cautious. But on the whole it again emphasizes that by the first half of the III Millennium B.C. the whole cycle of Pre-Harappan, peasant cultures were flourishing all over the Indus basin.