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.
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.[1].
↑ (see Edwin Bryant, Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture, 2001:211-212)
↑ "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
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,