An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c47.165

v2.c47.165

The grey pottery, essentially early Neolithic, is in various shades of colours: grey, black, buff, chocolate-red and brown; it is rusticated and burnished and is mostly handmade. Some have post-firing red-ochre painting at the edge of the vessel, while a few have pre-firing purple painting on the body. A few have incised decorative designs as well. The types are limited: the vase with outcurving or flaring rim; shallow and deep bowl; and dish-on-stand. Stone tools made on chert and jasper are parallel-sided blades, backed blades, lunates, fluted cores and flakes. There are a very few axes of grey gneiss or a dark-green hornblende schist mostly pecked and ground. Tools such as axes, hammers and rubbers are mostly from the surface.