History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c32.s2.t9.37

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Sir John Marshall opines that, “some arrangement for drawing water for irrigation, by means of an endless rope working over a wheel, with pottery vessels attached to it at intervals was in use in Sind and other parts of Western India from early times though it may not have taken the form of modern wheel” (Marshall, I, p. 318, f.n). But the excavation finds at other Calcolithic sites unmistakably show that, “only one type of jar has been found broken in large numbers. Jars of this kind average about six inches in height, have a pronounced, pointed and deeply scored belly, and are certainly too large to be grasped comfortably in one hand”.