Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.81

c11.81

The burial rites as seen in the cemeteries of Nal and Damb Buthi, with either total or fractional inhumations, do not give us many points of contact elsewhere. Cremation seems the rite in the Zhob Culture, and probably again in Kulli. On Tharro Hill, in Sind, there are burial cairns near the defended settlement presumably covering inhumations, but the associated pots suggest a form of the Harappā Culture rather than relationship with the Amri ware from the site. At Harappā itself the burials in the R 37 Cemetery were extended inhumations, contemporary with the occupation of the city, and in the later H Cemetery at the same site the earliest phase had both normal and fractional inhumations laid in the earth with accompanying pots, the second phase fractional burials in pots. Both phases appeared to be subsequent to the main occupation of the city.∗ On the whole, then, the rites of the Nal cemetery suggest comparison with the first phase of the H Cemetery at Harappā rather than with other sites, but this can hardly be taken as signifying any close connexion between the two in culture or chronology.