Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.26

c12.26

At three sites in Sind, on the top of ruined and deserted Harappā towns or villages, settlements were found which contained evidence of the arrival in the region of new peoples with an alien and more barbaric way of life than that of the complex urban pattern of Harappā. There is a little evidence that similar folk came to Mohenjo-daro in the days of its decline, and at Harappā, as at Chanhu-daro in Sind, there was a final occupation of people building rough huts on top of the ruins of the defences and structures of the citadel, and burying their dead in a cemetery dug into the rubbish-tips of the deserted city. In Baluchistan what seems to be a contemporary cemetery was dug into the ruins of a Kulli settlement containing evidence of Harappā contacts: again the evidence is consistent.