Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c19.s4: Black and Red Ware Culture
Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c19.s4
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Black and Red Ware Culture
v1.c19.s4.1
The excavation brought to light a new cultural phase hitherto unknown in the Upper-Gaṅgā-Valley. This phase intermediate between OCP and PGW, also detected at Noh and Jodhpura is characterised mainly by the black and red ware, cores and waste flakes of semi-precious stones and copper objects. The other cultural equipments of the period included beads of various material and pottery discs.
v1.c19.s4.2
As many as 88 antiquities including a few indeterminate objects were recovered from the strata of this period. They include three carnelian and a shell bead: four objects of copper, one possibly a ring and three beads: spikes of a broken bone-comb; fragment of pestles; a small burnished stone; pieces of indeterminate nature; and cores and flakes of semi-precious stones such as quartzite, chalcedony, agate and carnelian.
v1.c19.s4.3
According to the geologists, the pieces of chalcedony, quartz; carnelian and agate found at Atrañjikhera could have been brought either from Ranathambhor or Karwi-Banda regions. Since the nearest source of copper is also not far from the Ranathambhor region, it seems likely that both copper and these stones were brought from the neighbourhood of Ranathambhor.
v1.c19.s4.4
The B&RW culture people developed the tradition of white-painted potteries and transmitted the same to the PGW culture.