An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s7.12

v1.c9.s7.12

The characteristic of the Sothi/Kalibangan I culture have been given in 4.8 and under KALIBANGAN. With its fortified and planned settlement, it had almost reached an urban stage of development. The people had anticipated Harappa traits in many ways. They used mud bricks with the length-breadth-thickness ratio of 4:2:1, laid in English bond (baked bricks were used for drains) in their well laid-out houses roughly oriented in cardinal directions. Of the six fabrics of their pottery [11.2] as classified by Thapar (*IAR 1962-3*, pp. 20-7), Fabrics C and F have affinities with the corresponding Harappa shapes. Of the painted designs on pottery, the fish-scale and *pipal*-leaf are common to both; so is the pottery with external ribbing which occurs at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. External cord impression, a Sothi characteristic confirmed in Kalibangan I, occurs also on typical Harappa shapes at Mohenjo-daro. The short-stemmed dish-on-stand continues in the Harappa assemblage. Noteworthy also is the occurrence of toy-cart wheels, shell and terracotta bangles and steatite disc beads.