Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c8.93

c8.93

In the succeeding phase, represented by an accumulation fourteen feet thick, buildings were of baked or unbaked bricks and were roofed with oblong tiles. Streets were made of rubble bound with clay. The soakpits built of pottery-rings or pierced pots, which were to be characteristic of Indian towns for a thousand years, now made their appearance. Oval clay-lined ovens, blackened cooking-pots, grinding-stones and mortars represent kitchen-equipment; iron spearheads and arrowheads, with bone arrowheads which included one ‘stained with the blood of a bird’, were the principal outfit of the hunter and the soldier. N.B.P. Ware was found in large quantities and in varieties which were partially perhaps local products, some of them diversified with bands of black or saffron paint. The coarse vesiculated ware of the preceding period continued.