Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.90

c11.90

As with the Amri-Nal Culture, the sites characterized by Kulli ware are normally tells, and the same factors already noted as limiting the area of settlements occupying the upper part of such a sub-conical mound apply equally here. At the type-site of Kulli itself the area of visible ruins yielding characteristic finds of the culture, above the 20-feet contour, is about 200 yards square, while at Mehi the excavations, which sounded an occupation layer and a small cemetery (both apparently of the same culture), were all within the 30-feet contour of the great mound; the 25-feet line, within which this phase of settlement might more reasonably be supposed to lie (the 30-feet contour enclosing only a small ‘acropolis’ rising to 50 feet), encloses an area about 175 by 150 yards. The tell of Shahi-tump, in which excavations were carried to the base and remains of the Kulli Culture found in the lowest levels, was not more than 80-90 yards across. The size of typical settlements, in fact, seems, like those of the Amri-Nal Culture, to have been not greater than about two acres.