An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s14.t1.51

v1.c9.s14.t1.51

During the early phase of the culture people lived in a large rectangular mud-wall houses which at DAIMABAD and INAMGAON were oriented n.-w. to s.-e. One of the best examples of their houses exposed at DAIMABAD measured 7×3·5 m. It had two entrances, one each from n. and s., that from the s. having a 15 cm high step of clay. A screen divided the house into two parts, that on the w. having an ovaloid hearth, half-a-dozen unbaked large deep basins with a high pedestalled base, two of them containing lime, two large carinated bowls of the Jorwe Ware and two troughs of burnished grey ware. In this part of the house was also a small chamber in which were found a bun-shaped lid of burnished grey ware, a number of bone pieces and charcoal bits. Apart from these a large number of potsherds of various types of vases and clusters of bones in association with a few microliths and ovaloid hammer-stones were found in this part of the house. In the e. part of the house however there were a pear-shaped vase with short narrow neck of the Jorwe Ware, a quern and a flat stone around which lay a few microliths. The floor of the house was finely made and plastered and repaired from time to time. The walls were given a coat of lime both inside and outside. On the basis of calculation of the debris lying inside the house it has been worked out that the walls of the house were about 2·30 m high. The house had a finely plastered courtyard on the s. in which was placed a large jar decorated with fingertip decoration on the applied wavy strings.