An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.146

v2.c42.146

In Pd I the site seems to have been occupied by a people who lived in the huts erected over the natural lateritic soil and used handmade drab or thick grey ware showing impressions of husks of cultivated paddy [2.2] identified as *Oryza sativa* L. (Graminae). They also produced a wheel-turned thin plain ware of sandy fabric, a pale-red ware decorated with hatched cord designs and coarse (now rolled) black-and-red ware bowls and vases. A single bone point and very few stone tools represent the other cultural equipments of the Pd. The people generally buried their dead within the habitation area primarily in an extended fashion having an e.-w. orientation, but a secondary fractional burial and fragmentary remains (only one molar) preserved in a pale-red urn show the other burial practices. The end of the Pd came in the wake of a devastating flood in the Ajay as seen by the accumulation of a thick layer of sandy silt just overlying the occupational layer of the Pd.