Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.79

c11.79

In the Damb Buthi cemetery were pottery and shell bracelets similar to those of the Harappā Culture, and in at least seven Amri sites in Sind were found chert blades and cores; this pre-metallic industry of stone tools has been mentioned in Chapter II and need not necessarily imply a particularly great antiquity, for there is a noticeable survival of such blades in the Harappā Culture itself. Finally it should be noticed that there was no evidence that any of the clay figurines of animals found in the Nal excavations were associated with the cemetery, and in view of their total absence from all other sites of the Amri-Nal Culture, they may safely be attributed to the previous settlement (of Red-ware folk), into the ruins of which the cemetery was dug.