An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.289

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The prominent PGW settlements BINJOR-2, CAHK 86, RER, SARDARGARH-2 excavated by B.B. Lal in 1961 with unpublished results (of *AI*, 20 and 21, 1964 and 1965, p. 206) and BAREKE. The remains of this period are often overlain by those of the succeeding early historical (RANG MAHAL) culture. At the excavated site of RER the later settlement overlies a thick burnt deposit of the PGW settlement. Along with the typical PGW of Haryana and w. Uttar Pradesh there is a profusion of red ware, the commonest and most distinctive of which is the vase with impressed designs on the handmade body and plain wheel-made upper part. The continuous impressed designs, probably produced by the beating of the leather-hard surface of the pot with a wooden beater with the designs carved on it in the negative, consist of overlapping of concentric circles, leaf designs, series of vertical and horizontal lines intersected by vertical ones, etc. Except for the PGW itself this class of pottery is the diagnostic characteristic of the culture in the region but is scantily reported from the PGW sites farther e. (Tripathi, 1976, pp. 76-7). A few such sherds however have been found in the current excavation at Hulas referred to above (information from K.M. Dikshit).