Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.188

c12.188

Farther afield, other cemeteries or groups of burials wholly or partially of the Harappā Culture have been identified, notably at Derawar on the Ghaggar River in Bahawalpur State. Here was a cemetery at least 200 yards square which yielded in trial digging by Stein fractional burials (i.e. skeletons which had been removed from some other place before the final burial, and so in disorder or incomplete). In the R 37 cemetery there were groups of Harappā pots, sometimes as many as twenty-one in a single grave. At Derawar the cemetery, as at Harappā, lies outside the adjacent mounds, which, up to 40 feet high, represent the ruins of the settlement. At Sutkagen-dor in the Makran three large pots, containing cremated human bones and small vessels, a shell bangle and an ornamented disc, were found buried upright in the debris of the fort wall on the outside: evidently they were deposited late in the site’s history at a time when the wall was becoming ruinous. They seem likely to belong to the Harappā Culture in view of the sherd of a typical ‘offering-stand’ in one burial.