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The Painted Grey Ware culture (PGW) is an Iron Age Indo-Aryan culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley in the Indian subcontinent, conventionally dated c.1200 to 600–500 BCE, [1] [2] or from 1300 to 500–300 BCE.
English: Some pained grey ware sites ca. 1100-800 bc on map. Also earlier Late Harappan, Cemetery H, Ochre coloyured pottery and Copper Hoard sites. Also earlier Late Harappan, Cemetery H, Ochre coloyured pottery and Copper Hoard sites.
An examples of grey ware found in Pakistan was the Faiz Muhammad Grey Ware. This was manufactured during the Mehgarh Period V and included deep, open bowls and shallow plates. [3] The technology used for this type of grey ware was similar to the technology used in the grey ware found in east Iranian sites called Emir Grey Ware. [3]
All ancient Greek and ancient Roman pottery is earthenware, as is the Hispano-Moresque ware of the late Middle Ages, which developed into tin-glazed pottery or faience traditions in several parts of Europe, mostly notably the painted maiolica of the Italian Renaissance, and Dutch Delftware.
The most distinctive pottery of this period is known as "Gray Burnished ware" or sometimes as "Esdraelon ware" or Proto-Urban C pottery. This ware is known for its generally gray color, highly burnished finish, and a limited and distinctive range of morphological types, almost invariably bowls.
Chinese pottery also used techniques where patterns, images or calligraphy were created as part-dried slip was cut away to reveal a lower layer of slip or the main clay body in a contrasting colour. The latter of these is called the "cut-glaze" technique. [7] Slipware may be carved or burnished to change the surface appearance of the ware.
Cemetery H, Late Harappan, OCP, Copper Hoard and Painted Grey ware sites The term copper hoards refers to different assemblages of copper-based artefacts in the northern areas of the Indian Subcontinent that are believed to date from the 2nd millennium BC.
The Painted Grey Ware (PWG) culture is an Iron Age culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley, lasting from roughly 1200 BCE to 600 BCE, [51] [52] [53] which probably corresponds to the middle and late Vedic period, i.e., the Kuru-Panchala kingdom, the first large state in South Asia after the decline of the Indus Valley ...