The Painted Grey Ware culture is an Iron Age Indo-Aryan culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley in the Indian subcontinent, conventionally dated c.1200 to 600–500 BCE, or fr
Painted Grey Ware, Sonkh (Uttar Pradesh), 1000–600 BCE. Government Museum, Mathura
Fragments of Painted Grey Ware, about 1000 BC, from Hastinapur and Radhakund, Uttar Pradesh, and Panipat and Tilpat, Haryana. British Museum
Shards of Painted Grey Ware (right) and Harappan red pottery (left) from Rupnagar, Punjab
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Copper Age and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory
Painted Grey Ware culture
…Painted Grey Ware culture Map of some Painted Grey Ware (PGW) sites Geographical range North India Eastern Pakistan Period Iron Age Dates c. 1200–600 BCE Major sites Hastinapur Mathura Ahichchhatra Panipat Jognakhera Rupnagar Bhagwanpura Kosambi Characteristics Extensive iron…
Weapons and fibulae from a Celtic burial site, c. 350 BC.
Willamette Meteorite, the thirteenth largest in the world, is an iron–nickel meteorite found in the USA.
Copy of The Warrior of Hirschlanden (German: Krieger von Hirschlanden), a statue of a nude ithyphallic warrior made of sandstone, the oldest known Iron Age life-size anthropomorphic statue north of the Alps.
Maiden Castle, Dorset, England. More than 2,000 Iron Age hillforts are known in Britain.