[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v1.c9.s17.3 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s17.3 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s17.3 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c9.s17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s17.3) \*Peninsular India\*. The pottery associated with the megaliths of peninsular India is uniformally distributed. The black-and-red ware with a characteristically crackled appearance, probably due to salt-glazing, and with a large number of individualistic shapes, is almost universally found in the s. Indian megaliths. The important types include: the tulip-shaped vase; funnel-shaped lid, sometimes with ring terminals; elongated vase with carinated shoulder and long tapering body; and bowl with carinated body and almost pointed base. These types are also found in red or black wares associated with the black-and-red ware. These associated wares have also a few of their own characteristic types, e.g., the hour-glass-shaped ring-stand, three- or four-legged jar, chalice, small- to medium-sized globular vessel, etc. The wares are largely wheel-turned, thick in section, not very well-fired, slipped and sometimes burnished. Apart from these which are practically universal in distribution, there are a few wares which are regional. Thus in the Coimbatore megaliths the associated red ware is found painted in white in concentric wavy lines round the shoulder of the pots treated with a red slip. The paintings are characteristically coated upon by a russet coloured wash; the ware is hence known as the Russet-coated Painted Ware \[11.22\]. Similarly in the Tirunelveli graves some of the pots of black ware and black-and-red ware have been found with white paintings. The patterns are linear, consisting of dots arranged in groups of slanting lines. As some of the wares are regional in distribution, so also are some of the pottery types, although the regions and types do not coincide with natural geographical boundaries. Thus by and large the chalice is found in the Tamil Nadu and Andhra Preadesh megaliths alone. - [Previous: v1.c9.s17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s17.2) - [Next: v1.c9.s17.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s17.4) - [Up: v1.c9.s17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s17) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s17.3) · Pramāṇa