Consider the following pairs: Pottery Period

1. Painted grey ware : Rigvedic period

2. Ochre colored pottery :  Harappan period

3. Northern Black Polished ware : Neolithic period

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched? 

Solution

The Ochre Coloured Pottery culture is a Bronze Age culture of the Indo-Gangetic Plain "generally dated 2000–1500 BCE," extending from eastern Punjab to northeastern Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh. Artefacts of this culture show similarities with both the Late Harappan culture and the Vedic culture. The Northern Black Polished Ware culture (abbreviated NBPW or NBP) is an urban Iron Age Indian culture of the Indian subcontinent, lasting c. 700–200 BCE (proto NBPW between 1200 and 700 BCE), succeeding the Painted Grey Ware culture and Black and red ware culture.