Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.38

c11.38

When Hargreaves began his work at Nal the site had already been largely plundered by predatory digging at the beginning of the present century by an English colonel of antiquarian leanings, whose acquisitive enthusiasm for painted pots more than outweighed any vestiges of scientific interest he may have possessed, and to whose discredit the removal and subsequent disappearance of at least 200 vessels from the cemetery must be placed. Hargreaves found that the burials had been made in the deserted ruins of a settlement on the lower slopes of the main tell of the site; this settlement, in which he made several trial cuttings, did not itself yield any artifacts characteristic of the Amri-Nal Culture, and the scanty pottery finds fall in all probability into the Zhob Culture series, under which heading the occupation site is therefore described.