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Banas Culture

Banas Culture [CP].
The name given to a series of early Bronze Age agricultural communities living along the Banas River in Rajasthan, India, in the early 2nd millennium bc. Their material culture is characterized by black-on-red pottery which sometimes has white painted decoration, red-ware pottery, and copper and bronze tools and ornaments made from local ore sources. Their houses are made in stone and mud brick.

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