The Indus Civilization c4.5

c4.5

The following autumn Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni and the writer together resumed excavations at other parts of the site, and from that time until financial troubles put an end, in 1931, to archæological exploration in India, the investigation remained in the latter's charge. Meanwhile, the work at Harappa proceeded on a smaller scale under Mr. M. S. Vats, while Mr. N. G. Majumdar toured Sind in search of further sites. This latter work proved most successful, for settlements of the Indus Valley civilization were discovered in many places in that province, from the modern city of Hyderabad in the south nearly to Jacobabad in the north; they form a long chain of mounds between the present course of the Indus and the foothills of the Khirthar Range in Baluchistan, and include a very large city built of unburnt brick close to the eastern bank of the river. Only a brief examination of these mounds has yielded evidence of a yet earlier culture in some of them, lying beneath the remains left by the Indus Valley people when they deserted these sites, which, it should be mentioned, were not occupied again in later times. Of this earlier culture, named the Amri culture (after the site at which it was first discovered in Sind), we know but little; but its pottery, both in its shapes and the geometric designs painted on it in two colours, differs radically from the Indus Valley ware and is clearly the work of a different people.