Painted Grey Ware culture
Iron Age culture of the Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley
The Painted Grey Ware culture (PGW) is an Iron Age Indian culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley on the Indian subcontinent, lasting from roughly 1200 BCE to 600 BCE, or, as the new consensus states, from 1300 BCE to 300 BCE.
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edit- PGW can be regarded as one of the ceramics of the Iron Age North India which emerged, developed and declined in the socio‐cultural contexts during the late second and early first millennia BCE. However, there are many problems to be solved for better understanding the significance of PGW.
- Akinori Uesugi, "A Study on the Painted Grey Ware", in Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology, 6 (2018), p. 2
