The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c17.s2.3

c17.s2.3

The minor divergences in shapes and fabrics, when we are dealing with such a vast region and the differences in the nature and size of the excavations need not be a great obstacle for establishing contacts between the various sites of the period. Naturally, when a new technique emerges, it is sought to be copied and resemblances to the local forms is much less significant than the divergences. They mark the contacts and association with other sites. For example, the bowl with an everted lip and one with slight incipient beaded rim, which occur at Lothal and Amra, do not fit into any ceramic form associated with Harappa. Finally the existence of an independent ceramic tradition at the heart of this region and with geographic contiguity to the other cultures, weakens any assumptions of an independent origin of this technique at each of these sites.