Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.94

c11.94

Information about burial rites is even more scanty. A flexed inhumation burial was found at Kulli at a depth of 4 feet in the debris of the settlement; there were no grave-goods and consequently its association with the culture is unproven. At Mehi, however, Stein cut a trench through a cremation cemetery, the burials of which had been deposited in the superficial 6 feet of debris on the western slope of the tell. Here minor variations of the cremation rite (which seems to have been performed on the spot) were observed: in some burials the cremated bones were in pots; in others deposited directly in the soil; while in one six children’s skulls had been placed over a single cremated adult. Pottery, clay figurines and copper objects comprised the grave-goods, but as only ten burials were found in a trench 75 feet long by 6 feet wide, there does not appear to have been a marked concentration. The position of the cemetery, on the slope of the mound and so outside the settlement area, would allow of its being coeval with the final phase of occupation of the site.