Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c8.60

c8.60

This sub-Indus culture merged into a succeeding phase characterized by a lustrous red ceramic painted in black with stylized antelopes and less ambitious designs, and this was followed in turn by Black-and-red Ware of a kind which will be discussed later in connection with the South Indian megaliths (p. 161). Crude microliths still appear, but sherds of Northern Black Polished Ware indicate a date after 500 B.C. Substantially from the sub-Indus phase (latter half of 2nd millennium?) to the N.B.P. period, the occupation of the site seems to have been continuous.