An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s6.35

v1.c9.s6.35

The entire ceramic assemblage of this culture is handmade and crude. In the Early Phase it includes grey, shades of dull red, drab, brown and buff wares. The fabric is coarse and the finish crude. In all probability this pottery was produced by the coil method of potmaking. Husk and grass are used as tempering material. The pots bear impressions of woven mats on the bottoms of the manufactured pots, and these impressions show at least two varieties of weaving techniques. Grey, buff and brown pottery seems to be the predominant industry of the phase. The main shapes are the bowl and vase. The succeeding phase is distinguished, besides the continuation of the earlier ceramics, by the emergence of a new ceramic tradition in the form of black burnished ware and with new pot-forms. This ware is of medium fabric and better finished than that of the Early Phase. Shapes in the black burnished ware comprise: varieties of the bowl such as the one with slanting sides, flat rim and sagger base, bowl with externally chamfered as also everted rim; deep bowl with featureless rim; dish with flat base; jar with flaring thick featureless or sharpened rim, flaring rim and slightly constricted neck; stem with triangular holes; vase; etc. Characteristic is a highnecked jar with flaring rim, globular body and flat base.