The Painted Grey Ware culture (PGW) is an Iron Age culture of the Gangetic plain, lasting from roughly 1200 BCE to 600 BCE.

It is contemporary to, and a successor of the Black and red ware culture.

It probably corresponds to the later Vedic period.

It is succeeded by Northern Black Polished Ware from ca.

500 BCE.The pottery style of this culture is different from the pottery of the Iranian Plateau and Afghanistan (Bryant 2001).

In some sites, PGW pottery and Late Harappan pottery are contemporaneous.