The Indus Civilization c11.15

c11.15

As might be expected in a city whose principal interest was trade, the population of Mohenjo-daro seems to have been distinctly cosmopolitan in character. The amount of skeletal material unearthed is not large, and, moreover, a good deal of that found was obviously not properly interred, as the remains, of all sexes and ages, were found in contorted positions. In spite of this, Colonel Sewell and Dr. Guha have identified no less than four different races: the Proto-Australoid, Mediterranean, Mongolian, and Alpine, although the two latter are represented by only one skull of each type. The Proto-Australoid and Mediterranean types, which form the majority of the specimens discovered, must have belonged to a big-brained, dolichocephalic people, and they agree in many ways with skulls found by Dr. Woolley at Al 'Ubaid and by the writer at Kish.