The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c8.36

c8.36

has been identified¹ near Quetta and further south at its type-site, Togau, in a valley 12 miles north-west of Kalāt in the state of that name. Thence over twenty sites at which this ware is represented spread unexpectedly southwards, fanning out in conformity with the valley-system to the limits of the south Baluch upland and even on to the Indus plain. The ware is wheel-turned with a red slip and geometric and animal-patterns in black, including caprids in various stages of devolution from complete animals to a mere fringe of detached horns. Friezes of birds and schematic human beings also occur. At two sites (Amri and Lohri) it has been found with buff wares antedating and possibly overlapping the beginning of the Harappā culture. It may perhaps be ascribed, therefore, to the first half or middle of the third millennium B.C., and, to judge solely by its general appearance and the devolved character of some of its decoration, is unlikely to be earlier than that period. The occurrence of this developed red ware in the heart of the buff-ware country is a warning of the provisional nature of the colour-classification, which certainly does not "work" in India in the third millennium.