POTTERY MAKING AT MEHRGARH

Abstract

This research paper has been extracted from the author’s M.Phil. Thesis, this paper deals to the very important site of Mehrgarh, located in Baluchistan, Pakistan. Mehrgarh is significant Neolithic site which continued to Indus period. Climatically hot arid mountainous landscape become south Asia’s famous site featuring with permanent settlement and sophisticated pottery making techniques. The region of Baluchistan has also other contemporary archaeological sites but the fame received by Mehrgarh others couldn’t. More remarkably within extreme environmental context Mehrgarh pottery was evolutionized from aceramic to wheel made pottery, detailed preview of entire Mehrgarh’s craftsmen has been focused, from their Stone-mud structures to complex pottery techniques