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The early Iron Age in North India is most prominently associated with which pottery culture?

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Painted Grey Ware and Northern Black Polished Ware

The Iron Age in North India is marked by successive pottery cultures found at excavation sites across the Gangetic plains.

The Painted Grey Ware culture, associated with the later Vedic period, represents an early phase of the Iron Age, followed by the Northern Black Polished Ware culture linked to the rise of early historic cities and the Mahajanapadas.

Together, these two pottery traditions are the most prominent markers of the early Iron Age in North India.

Hence, the early Iron Age in North India is associated with Painted Grey Ware and Northern Black Polished Ware.

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