Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.29

c11.29

However, at Nundara itself the settlement producing the pottery of the type designated from this site seems likely to have occupied an area not far removed from the total 220 by 180 yards of the tell, while at Bandhni in Sind the area of Amri occupation may have been as much as 400 by 230 yards. But at the Sind sites of Pandi Wahi and Ghazi Shah, where excavation showed that the Amri ware levels were definitely at the base of the mounds, the areas were about 150 by 115 yards and 170 by 160 yards respectively, and other sites have similar proportions. The average size of the settlements, as far as it has been ascertained at present, seems in fact to have been something under two acres - about the size of the area enclosed by the lowest contours at Tepe Gawra, to instance a well-known prehistoric site in Mesopotamia.