The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t4.32

c14.s1.t4.32

At Ujjain a similar sequence was repeated, but N. R. Banerji divided this earliest phase on the basis of N.B.P. The earliest is characterized by the occurrence of black-and-red pottery, iron, etc., without N.B.P. In his latest report he has dated this period to 700-500 B.C. Very significantly this phase shows affinities to Kausambi and Ahichehatra by the occurrence of "double slipped wares with thin black evanescent slip or wash over a red ware". Thus this is very significant and explains the culture gap between the Chalcolithic and Historic phases at Maheshvar. At Maheshvar, N.B.P. is absent in the lowest 13 feet of the deposits with black-and-red ware and iron.¹