The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t5.5

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The most important evidence bearing on the problem of burials and the black-and-red ware has been unearthed in Deshpande's resumed excavations at Bahal on the Girna river in West Khandesh. He exposed 5 phases with breaks between I and II, and III and IV. In his first phase, which he divides into 'A' and 'B', he found, thick grey ware urn types with flared rims (similar to Brahmagiri) succeeded by the typical Central Indian wheel turned black-on-red painted ware with a few sherds of "Post-Harappan lustrous red ware" and the carinated vessel with a tubular rim, with the typical blade industry. His phase II belongs to the Iron age and is characterized by the black-and-red ware and iron spear heads, arrow heads, knives, daggers, sickles etc.²