DMPQ- What are the main features of Chalcolithic period Art?

Chalcolithic period Art:

  • Copper age art.
  • The paintings of this period reveal the association, contact and mutual exchange of requirements of the cave dwellers of this area with settled agricultural communities of the Malwa Plateau.
  • Pottery and metal tools can be seen in paintings.
  • Similarities with rock paintings:Common motifs (designs/patterns like cross-hatched squares, lattices etc)

The difference with rock paintings: Vividness and vitality of older periods disappear from these paintings