An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c28.102

v2.c28.102

The pottery of AC III has been classified into three groups: early, intermediate and late. The early groups, consisting of material from strata IX to VII, includes the grey ware, now known from sites like Hastināpura and elsewhere to be contemporary with the NBPW [11.16]; though not found in AC III, the NBPW is found in the e. sector, which also has the PGW [11.14]. In fact the identification of the NBPW and PGW was for the first time established at Ahicchatrā (Wheeler and Krishna Deva, 1946), the mutual chronological relationship of the two at that time remaining uncertain, though it was significantly remarked that the indication was that 'the painted wares [PGW] and the black polished wares [NBPW] were coeval with each other' and that 'the priority of the painted to the black polished wares must be regarded as probable,'— an observation amply confirmed by subsequent excavations elsewhere in the upper Gaṅgā valley with the modification that the priority of the PGW to the NBPW, regarded then as probable, is now well-established as also the overlap of the two wares towards the end of the former and the beginning of the latter.