Some Indus Pottery Types from Nari Khushab: A Study of Selected Sherds Collected from the Surface
Abstract
Pottery data is largest found scattered on the sites of Indus Valley Civilization. This data helps us to understand the period and nature of site even before conducting any type of diagnostic excavation. This research is based on the archaeological survey of District Khushab, Punjab, Pakistan, carried out by the Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad during 2018-2020. Recent attempts for investigating Khushab archaeology opens new phase of explorations in this area, under which a team documented number of archaeological sites. This paper is a part of this comprehensive survey and is dedicated to the studies of the archaeological site dated contemporary to other sites of this Civilization, known as Nari. This study is primarily focusing on its pottery and types based on structural design. We can explore more about the dominant cultural phase by examining the structural design, the paper provides a preliminary understanding of the cultural significance of Nari pottery. Generally, in this study we tentatively explored six types of pottery sherds, on these types we can classify the set of pottery of data so far found of the surface of the site, which relate this site to the Kot Diji phase of regionalization era beside the existence of integrated phases are also visible.
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