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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.
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]
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.
Of these, the principal fabric is the Grey Ware [1] and this was in production by AD280. [1] All the Crambeck fabrics are united by a fine clay matrix with sparse silver mica containing varying quantities of quartz and iron-rich inclusions, while the mortaria have slag trituration grits.
Recent excavations in Ahichchhatra showed it was first inhabited by the middle of the second millennium BC with Ochre Coloured Pottery culture people, followed by Black and Red Ware culture. Around 1000 BC, it reached at least 40 hectares of area, making it one of the largest Painted Grey Ware culture sites. Evidence of construction of early ...
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 polished black-gray pottery has been associated with that of other BMAC sites, like Dashly in Afghanistan, Tepe Hissar, and Tureng Tepe. According to Asko Parpola , the presence of black-red pottery also suggests links with Cemetery H culture in Punjab.
Vibha Tripathi (born 5 February 1948) [1] is an Indian archaeologist. She graduated from the University of Allahabad and in 1973 obtained her PhD from the Banaras Hindu University for her thesis titled "The Painted Grey Ware - A Protohistoric Culture". [1]