Indian pottery

The pottery of ancient India is one of the most tangible and iconic elements of ancient Indian art. Pottery has also been found in the early settlements of Mehrgarh.

Vedic pottery

Wilhelm Rau (1974) has examined the references to pottery in Vedic texts like the Black Yajur Veda and the Taittiriya Samhita. According to his study, Vedic pottery is for example hand-made and unpainted. According to Kuzmina (1983), Vedic pottery that matches Willhelm's Rau description cannot be found in Asia Minor and Central Asia, though the pottery of Andronovo is similar in some respects. [(see Edwin Bryant, Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture, 2001:211-212)] .

Indus Valley Civilization

Jean-François Jarrige has noted that there is a continuity between pottery of third millennium Baluchistan and second millennium Pirak. ["While the geometric painted designs on pottery of Pirak may be quite different from those on Harappan pottery, they are very much in the older "Quetta-Amri" tradition". Jarrige 1985]

Notes

*Jarrige, Jean-François: 1985, Continuity and change in the North Kachi Plain at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, in J Schotsmans and M. Taddei (eds.) South Asian Archaeology, Naples 1983. Instituto Universatirio Orientale.

Further reading

*Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation : Study of Painted Motifs/Sudha Satyawadi. 1994,