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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.
As the rice culture began declining, wealthy sportsmen started purchasing many of the plantations as hunting retreats, including Nemours, which is part of more than 300,000 acres of private land ...
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). This corresponds to the transition of the Janapadas or principalities of the Vedic period to the sixteen Mahajanapadas or region-states of the early historic period, culminating in ...
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 ...
Pimelea treyvaudii is a small shrub 20–30 cm (7.9–11.8 in) high with smooth stems glabrous. Leaves are arranged opposite, narrowly elliptic 6–37 mm (0.24–1.46 in) long, 1–10 mm (0.039–0.394 in) wide, smooth, uniformly grey coloured, sometimes paler on the underside.
A Nepali farmer winnows rice grains to separate them from the husks in a field in Khokana, Lalitpur, Nepal, on Nov. 6, 2024. Credit - Subaas Shrestha—NurPhoto via Getty Images
Gandhara grave culture: Black and red ware culture: 1100-800 BCE: Vedic settlements Gandhara: Vedic settlements Kuru: Culture: Late Vedic Period: Gandhara grave culture (Brahmin ideology) [b] • early Upanishads • Painted Grey Ware culture (Kshatriya/Shramanic culture) [c] • Northern Black Polished Ware: 800-600 BCE: Gandhara: Kuru-Pancala ...
Rice accounts for more than half of the calories in the average diet, and the source of livelihood for about 20 million households. The importance of rice in Indonesian culture is demonstrated through the reverence of Dewi Sri, the rice goddess of ancient Java and Bali. Evidence of wild rice on the island of Sulawesi dates from 3000 BC.