An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.152

v2.c42.152

Most of the pottery types of Pd II are continued in Pd III, but they undergo slight variations in respect of the shape and treatment of the surface. Although the painted and plain red ware and painted and plain black-and-red ware persist, they are outnumbered by plain and painted black-slipped ware [11.13], in which are produced the vase, dish-on-stand, bowl, bowl-on-stand, *loṭā*, dish and lid, sometimes painted in white or cream in the style of the black-and-red ware. The slip on the red ware is applied in various shades of red varying from scarlet and pink to dark-brown and chocolate besides orange, creamish and tan turned due to firing under different conditions. The channel-spouted bowl in black-and-red ware the spouted ends of which were smaller, narrower and rather elongated in Pd II are now turned out in elegant shapes; the spouted ends have splayed ends, while red ochre is applied after firing. Small high-necked vases like the *loṭā* with a flaring rim are produced in both red-slipped and black-slipped ware. In this Pd was also introduced a kind of black burnished ware having incised decorative designs or stylized motifs indicating a peahen holding a snake, a row of fish with a hatched decoration, *pīpal* leaves, bull, undulated signs representing ripples of water as also hatched triangles and scallops. Black-slipped ware having incised and pin-hole decorations recalls the similar pottery from CHIRAND and TEKKALAKOTA. Polished or ground stone celts are found for the first time in this Pd. The main type of axes is of a tiny celt rounded-butt type with thin lenticular section, typical of the e. Neolithic clets [14.6.6], perhaps used after having been hafted in sleeves of wood, bone or horn. They perhaps produce evidence of re-use of an earlier material by some backward communities still living in the Neolithic stage of life and do not appear to be an integral part of the main culture stream of the people of the site.