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Traditional Nizamabad black pottery from Uttar Pradesh, India. Painted under-eave roof-tile, Sri Lanka, 5th century. Potteries on display in Dilli Haat market, New Delhi, India. Pottery in the Indian subcontinent has an ancient history and is one of the most tangible and iconic elements of Indian art.
However, the continuity of pottery styles may be explained by the fact that pottery was generally made by indigenous craftsmen even after the Indo-Aryan migration. [23] According to Chakrabarti (1968) and other scholars, the origins of the subsistence patterns (e.g. rice use) and most other characteristics of the Painted Grey Ware culture are ...
The Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (OCP) is a Bronze Age culture of the Indo-Gangetic Plain "generally dated 2000–1500 BCE," [1] [2] extending from eastern Punjab to northeastern Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh.
Black and red ware (BRW) is a South Asian earthenware, associated with the neolithic phase, Harappa, Bronze Age India, Iron Age India, the megalithic and the early historical period. [1] Although it is sometimes called an archaeological culture , the spread in space and time and the differences in style and make are such that the ware must have ...
The NBP culture may reflect the first state-level organization in the Indian Subcontinent. [ 8 ] According to Geoffrey Samuel, following Tim Hopkins, the Central Gangetic Plain, which was the center of the NBP, was culturally distinct from the Painted Grey Ware culture of the Vedic Aryans of Kuru-Pancala west of it, and saw an independent ...
In the prehistory of the Indian subcontinent, the Iron Age succeeded Bronze Age India and partly corresponds with the megalithic cultures of South India. Other Iron Age archaeological cultures of north India were the Painted Grey Ware culture (1300–300 BCE) [1] and the Northern Black Polished Ware (700–200 BCE).
The black pottery is studied by historians due to its resemble with the Northern Black Polished Ware pottery of urban Iron Age culture of Indian Subcontinent. [9] The silver patterns are inspired from medieval Bidriware of Hyderabad which decorates pots using silver wires. [ 6 ]
Ahar-banas culture: Based on the pottery excavated here, this site is considered as a separate archaeological culture / subculture. [ 3 ] Typical Ahar pottery is a Black-and-Red ware (BRW) with linear and dotted designs painted on it in white pigment [ 4 ] and has a limited range of shapes, which include bowls, bowls-on-stands, elongated vases ...