A Short Note on the Ceramics of Gandi Umar Khan in the Gomal Plain, Pakistan

Abstract

This paper is focused only on highlighting and categorization of the decorative designs on the pottery of the Bronze Age site of Gandi Umar Khan on the Gomal Plain, excavated in 2003 and 2004 by the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar. The study of ceramics especially of the proto-historic phase is very significant that unfolds many hidden aspects of a primitive society such as socio-cultural and socio-economic.