[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.c47.165 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c47.165 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c47.165 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c47.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.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. - [Previous: v2.c47.164](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c47.164) - [Next: v2.c47.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c47.166) - [Up: v2.c47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c47) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c47.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c47.165) · Pramāṇa