​Pynthorlangtein 

Site Name

​Pynthorlangtein 

Site Details

​L.S. Rao (IAR 1992-93), with his colleagues of the Prehistory Branch of the Archaeological Survey of India took a trial trench measuring 2 × 1 m at Pynthorlangtein (25O 22’ 26’’; 92O 06’ 07’’) in Jowai Tehsil

Pottery Style

​1. Coarse red ware pottery with cord-impression

Pottery Style Details

• handmade, coarse red ware pottery with cord-impression (collected at a depth of 60-80 cm).

• fired in low temperature 

• Recent explorations carried out by M. Mitri (2005) have yielded neolithic stone artifacts and pottery from Sohpet Bneng Hill of Ri-Bhoi district in Meghalaya. On the basis of the artifacts and the raw material used, he argues that “the people who arrived in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills had already equipped themselves with Neolithic technology which they brought from outside” (Mitri 2009: 75). He suggests that the northern part of the Ri-Bhoi region along the border of Karbi Anglong district of Assam was the entry point to the Khasi and Jaintia Hills for the Neolithic dwellers and the “Neolithic elements of this region are the direct offshoot of the outliner Neolithic from Cachar Hills and Karbi Anglong region” (Mitri 2009: 84).