[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.c46.414 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.414 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.414 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c46.414](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.414) The earliest Pd, dated to \*c.\* 1000 B.C., was marked by microliths—cores, long blades with worked edges, lunates, crescentic blades, arrowheads and scrapers made on agate, chalcedony, quartz, jasper and flint—and a black-painted red pottery on the Black-Cotton Soil \[9.1\]. Large lobular vessels were painted in black with thick horizontal and concentric bands. The pottery was turned on slow wheel and had a micaceous red slip in the interior. There were no copper objects. - [Previous: v2.c46.413](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.413) - [Next: v2.c46.415](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.415) - [Up: v2.c46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.414](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.414) · Pramāṇa