The Jhangar phase was an archaeological culture, named after the type site Jhangar, that followed the Jhukar phase of the Late Harappan culture in Sindh (i.e., the Lower Indus Valley). ^[1]

Jhukar and Jhangar phases are collectively called Jhukar and Jhangar culture (1900–1500 BCE). Cemetery H culture (subculture of Late Harrapan IVC phase) in Punjab was contemporaneous to Jhukar-Jhangar culture (subculture of Late Harrapan IVC phase) in Sindh, both have evidence of continuity and change. ^[2] Rangpur culture in Gujarat, also part of late phase of IVC, was also contemporaneous to both.

It is a non-urban culture, characterised by "crude handmade pottery" and "campsites of a population which was nomadic and mainly pastoralist," and is dated to approximately the late second millennium BCE and early first millennium BCE. ^[3] In Sindh, urban growth began again after approximately 500 BCE. ^[4]

See also

• Chronological dating
  • Phases in archaeology
  • Pottery in the Indian subcontinent

• Periodisation of the Indus Valley Civilisation
  • Ahar–Banas culture (3000–1500 BCE)
  • Late Harappan phase of IVC (1900–1500 BCE)
    • Cemetery H culture in Punjab
    • Jhukar–Jhangar culture in Punjab
    • Rangpur culture in Gujarat

• Vedic period
  • Kuru kingdom (1200 – c. 500 BCE)
  • OCP (2000–1500 BCE)
  • Copper Hoard culture (2800–1500 BCE), may or may not be independent of vedic culture

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