Proto- Historic Culture of India Revisting Ochre Coloured Pottery Culture
Journal Title: Journal Global Values A Peer Reviewed International Journal - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
Presently an attempt is made to review the Ochre Coloured Pottery culture and its characteristic features. The Ochre Coloured Pottery (OCP) culture has been first identified by B.B. Lal inBisauli and RajpurParasu (U.P.) where people used primitive types of copper implements and an ill-fired and thick Ochre-Washed Pottery. Among the OCP types were, later on, found many wares made of well levigated clay, wheel made, slipped and often painted with black colour, sturdily and well-fired. The types included jars, vases, with flanged rims and elongated beaks, bowls basins, lids with and without knobs, dish-on-stand and handled ones were common shapes. Motifs included bull, floral scroll, curved comb designs, geometric designs, triangles, spirals, circles, semi-circles, loops, bands and parallel lines. Other characteristic finds included arrow heads, beads, pendants, bangles of copper, terracotta beads, figurines, bull horns and semi-precious stones like carnelian, soap-stone and arrow heads of bone, etc.
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Dr. Nazim Husain
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