Crafts, Pottery and Iron Industry

2020-04-27 11:42 :55

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Rock paintings found at megalithic sites show fighting scenes, dancing figures, horse riders, flor, birds and sun motifs.
They give insight about lives and experience of the people.
Piklihal shows megalithic painting of horse riders carrying metal axes.
In central India many tribes of Jharkahand such as Munda, Oraon, Gonds etc still practice Megalithic paintings. Megalithic age in Jharkhand has been dated to 3000BC.

Evidence of well developed traditions of specialised crafts.
Differenk kinds of Pottery have been found including BRW.
Pots with lids decorated in shape of birds and animals suggest ceremonial wares.
Evidence of bead making. Grave goods have given etched carnelian beads and beads of other materials.
Copper and Bronze artefacts such as utensils, bowls and bangles some of which are silver and gold have also been found.
Anthropomorphic figures have also been found at Mottur in Tamil Nadu embedded by digging the bedrock. A pedestal makes it look like a sitting figure. They may have been connected with Ancestral worship.
Some sites must have been centres of craft production.
The distribution of non local items of precious and semi precious metals suggest Inter regional trade.
Gold ornaments have been ofund in Adichannlur that is not endemic to the place along with Tamil brahmi inscriptions.

Iron objects outnumber any other metals in megalithic sites.
Ex Utensils, weapons like arrowhead, spearheads, swords; carpentary tools like axes, chisels, adzes and Agricultural equipments like sickles, hoes etc.
At Pazhayannur and Machad Iron artefacts have been found of considerable purity and evidence of other materials that suggest Megalithic people knew the art of making alloys.

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