Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.135

c7.135

In due course we shall encounter in the northern plains an Indian Bronze Age ceramic of cardinal importance known as the Painted Grey Ware, a highly distinctive fabric to which the schematic dates 1000-500 B.C. have been provisionally given, though 800-500 B.C. would be safer. This ware has been found on a number of sites (notably Rupar) which have also produced Indus Valley relics, and in every case the Grey Ware overlay the Indus material with a clear intervening gap. Here in the north, therefore, we are left with the period 1500-1000 or 800 B.C. (more or less) to fill, and, as the task is still actively in hand, no detailed discussion is appropriate to the present review.