[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) › v2.c29.96 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c29.96 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c29.96 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c29.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c29.96) Pd I had two Sub-pds, A and B, both Chalcolithic, overlying the Black Cotton Soil \[9.1\]. Sub-pd A was distinguished by a thick grey ware in the shape of the globular jar with a flared rim, reminiscent of the BRAHMAGIRI urn, bowl with flat base and incurved rim and handmade storage jar with incised oblique and criss-cross lines or dot-and-chain patterns and with bold applied decoration of finger-tips and female figurines of the fertility goddess. A few sherds of thinner grey ware had paintings in red ochre on the rim portion of the pot or on the knob of the lid shaped like a shallow bowl. This pottery is also met with in Pd III of DAIMABAD. Sub-pd I B produced fine red ware turned on the fast wheel. It was painted in black with a rich variety of designs—horizontal bands with hatched diamonds, triangles, ladders, concentric circles and criss-cross, parallel lines and antelope and horse (?); the last-mentioned pottery with animal paintings bears similarity with the DAIMABAD pot bearing a painted band of a procession of antelopes, leopard and a human being. A few sherds of lustrous red-slipped ware recalls the post-Harappa Lustrous Red Ware \[11.9\] of RANGPUR. The upper levels of this Sub-pd contained the carinated bowl and spouted vessel of the NASIK-JORWE type, but the typical burials of the Jorwe culture \[4.14.6\] with two or three urns placed horizontally mouth to mouth \[12.4\] were not met with at Bahal, nor the extended burials seen in the Chalcolithic levels at DAIMABAD and INAMGAON. The burnished grey ware found in Sub-pd I A and black ware with oblique lines painted in white continued in this Sub-pd. The other finds consisted of beads of terracotta, shell and paste, microliths of chalcedony, agate and jasper—mostly parallel-sided blades, sometimes serrated, and less frequently lunates and trapezes—and terracotta comb-like objects made out of sherds and bones. The limited use of copper was indicated by a shapeless lump of metal. - [Previous: v2.c29.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c29.95) - [Next: v2.c29.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c29.97) - [Up: v2.c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c29) ## Linked texts (4) - [Rangpur](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.rangpur) - [Daimabad](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.daimabad) - [Nāsik](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.nasik) - [Inamgaon](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.inamgaon) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c29.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c29.96) · Pramāṇa