.Red and Buff Ware Cultures
Careful excavations of the Pre-historic mounds in these areas and the classification of their contents, layer by layer, have grouped them into two main categories of Red Ware Culture and Buff Ware Culture. The former is popularly known as the Zhob Culture of North Balochistan, while the latter comprises Quetta, Amri Nal and Kulli Cultures of Sindh and south Balochistan. Some Amri Nal villages or towns had stone walls and bastions for defence purposes and their houses had stone foundations An important feature of this composite culture is that at Amri and certain other sites, it has been found below the very distinctive Indus Valley culture. It probably represents one of the local societies which constituted the environment for the growth of the Indus Valley Civilization.3 When the primitive village communities in the Balochistan area were still struggling against a difficult highland environment, a highly cultured people was trying to assert themselves at Kot Diji in the Sindh province, one of the most developed urban civilizations of the ancient world which flourished between the years 3300 and 1300 BC in the Indus Valley sites o Mohenjo Daro and Harappa
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