3 101 X Period II-III: c 5100-3500 BC. By 5000 BC, pottery was in use and the settlement expanding. Cattle were increasing in importance and fewer animals were hunted. Cotton was now cultivated. Far flung links are shown by lapis lazuli from Badakshan and conch shells from the Indian Ocean. Many other agricultural settlements were now emerging in the Indo-Iranian borderlands.
#Period II-III, Sickles of flint hafted in bitumen
1 101 X Pottery, which appeared around 5000 BC, was at first hand made but later was turned on a foot-operated wheel. Often the pottery was fired in a bonfire clamp: abandoned warped and broken vessels remain from one such firing that failed disastrously.
#Pottery Making, broken pottery strewn over wide area
4 101 X Period IV-VI: c 3500-2500 BC. The settlement shifted around 3500 BC but was abandoned in the Indus period. Specialized workshops making beads and bronze objects have been uncovered. Among the most striking finds are figurines with elaborate headdresses. A huge mud brick platform survives from some monumental building.
#Period IV-VI, Figurines
2 101 X A cemetery found near Mehrgarh, dated to early in the 2nd millennium BC, contained grey pottery and metal objects similar to those from contemporary Iran and Central Asia.
