Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.66

c12.66

We now know that these mounds are the ruined remnants of impressive fortified citadels, in which, on an artificial platform of mud brick 30 feet or more high, stood certain buildings of peculiar plan, defended by a battered wall of baked brick facing the mud-brick core, with rectangular towers and great gateways (Figs. 19 and 20, Pls. 1 and 2). The Harappā evidence is full, and is derived from the first excavation to be conducted on the Indian prehistoric sites which follows modern archaeological technique, but here the buildings on the top are so ruined as to render their plan FIG. 19. (after Wheeler)