of India · Part 2

They used copper objects such as flat axes, bangles, rings, antimony rods, knives, blades, socket-less axes, barbed and tanged arrow heads, choppers and chisels. Ochre Coloured Pottery Ware Culture Ochre Coloured Pottery Ware culture is found in northern India dating to the Chalcolithic period. The OCP pottery has red slip and appears ochre in colour (the ochre colour comes off when the pottery is touched) and hence, it is called Ochre Coloured Pottery. It has black painted designs. The OCP comes in the form of jars, storage jars, bowls, and basins. The OCP culture dates to - BCE and is found in the Indo-Gangetic plain and may have had some associations with early Vedic culture. The OCP culture is seen as an impoverished Harappan culture and some scholars see it as unrelated to the Harappan culture. The OCP sites produced copper figures and objects and therefore it is also known as “copper hoard culture.” It is a rural culture and has evidence of the cultivation of rice, barley, and legumes. They also had pastoralism with N S W E Map not to scale CHALCOLITHIC SITES BAY OF BENGAL ARABIAN SEA I N D I A N O C E A N Jodhpura Ganeshwar Gilund Ahar Kayatha Navadatoli Eran Koldihwa Chirand Narham Pandu rajar dhibi Golabai sasam Daimabad Brahmagiri Hallur Piklihal Maski Inamgaon Nevasa Jorwe Prabhas patan Balathal Mehrgarh Sanganakallu Rangpur A n d a m a n a n d N i c o b a r ( I n d i a ) L a k s h a d w e e p ( I n d i a ) XI History - Lesson - - Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures The end of Megalithic burial practice is assigned to third-second centuries CE. During this period Brahmi writing akin to Ashokan Brahmi has been discovered in Kodumanal (Erode District). There is also evidence of the megalithic tradition continuing into later centuries. During the Sangam period people still remembered urn burials. The four primitive hero-stones with Tamil Brahmi inscriptions, datable