An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c10.s1.15

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Reference may be made here to the localized rural cultures in Baluchistan which, on the basis of detailed analysis of ceramic types, stratigraphical position and similarity or painted pottery designs with those in certain w. Asian sites, were assigned approximate chrono-cultural framework (Piggott, 1950; Lal, 1953, pp. 82-3, and references cited therein). Among them are: Kile Gul Mohammed culture which has been placed early in the 4th millennium b.c.; Rana Ghundai where the pottery of Phase II on the basis of its similarity with Hissar I pottery ‘represents an infiltration from the Iranian uplands in the second half of the 4th millennium b.c.’ and the presence of RG III type of pottery below the defences at Harappa’ indicates an earlier date; the ceramic industry from Quetta which is ‘comparable to that represented by the Tal-i-Bakun site itself, Susa I, Giyan V and Sialk III, and may be equally early in date' (Piggott, 1950, p. 75); and the Kulli-Mehi culture with its buff ware bearing animal and landscape motifs 'reminiscent of the Scarlet Ware of the Early Dynastic times in Iraq' and thus placed 'in its early stages, in the quarter of the 3rd millennium B.C.' Among other remains of the Kulli-Mehi culture, which like the Nal culture survived into the Harappa times are the small compartmented pots of stone with incised patterns which attest to the synchronism with Early Dynastic Iraq (Lal, 1953, p. 83; Piggott, 1950, pp. 110-11).