Ancient India

Baluchistan Villages and Indus Cities

At the end of the 6th millennium and during the 5th millennium BC the way of life and
craft activities was part of the early Neolithic period which changed gradually. Rough
pottery yielded to glossy red wares of finer quality and this during the 5th century made a
pottery style initially making use of simple geometric motifs and shortly after 4000 B.C.
developing a more complex decoration associated with animals and birds.
This type of decoration resembles things that were found at certain sites at the Iranian
plateau which is a fairly common in the Baluchistan sites and even further west in
Afghanistan at the time of the foundation of Mundigake. Mehrgarh is the only well-
known site which dates from the period and this is where archaeologists found remains
dating from the end of the 5th millennium and extending over almost 70 hectares. These
include large groups of store rooms which were very much in the tradition of the
compartmentalized building of the Neolithic period. These areas where pots were thrown
stonemasons workrooms where lathes were operated by belts or bows ending in small
green-jasper drills which is a system allowing a piece of wood to be turned by pressure
on the belt often attach to a bow which was wound and wound to generate a regular
rotation and burial grounds