49760
Accession Number
2614
Title Of Article Chaper
The painted grey ware of India
Title Of Journal Book
Antiquity
Volume
49
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Painted Grey Ware (PGW) is a distinctive kind of pottery. It was the pottery of a group of people who settled in the Sutlej, Ghaggar and the Upper Ganga-Yamuna valleys in India. This group is tentatively identified with the early Aryans, dating from a time span of 500 years from the early to the mid-centuries of the first millennium BC. The pottery is largely wheel-thrown, smooth, ash- grey in color and often painted with linear, dotted or circular patterns in a black pigment. Sometimes these patterns include spirals, sigmas, and swastikas. The PGW has much in common with the Northern Black Polished Ware which it preceded. Results of analyses of PGW is provided.
Keywords
pottery;india;archaeology;clay
pub_id
49760