Buff ware is a type of pottery that appeared in the Umayyad period, made of fine and light, almost white, clay.

Brown on buff ware, associated with Bhirrana pottery was found at Bhirrana in Hisar district of Haryana state in India.Upinder Singh, 2008, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to 12th century, Pearson Education, p. 109. Bhirrana is likely the oldest pre-Harappan neolithic site dating back to 7570-6200 BCE.R P Meena, Ancient Indian History for Civil Services Examination. Genome scientists, who used SNP analysis to identify mtDNA haplogroups, ascertained that the Bhirrana culture of India was dated to 9 tya (thousand year ago).Terry Nettle, 2017, Human Origin and Lineage: Surviving Environmental Challenges and Human Conflicts, chapt. 8.

See also

Archaeological culture Fabric analysis of pottery Indian Pottery cultures Pottery archaeology 'Six fabrics of Kalibanagan' pottery

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