Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.25

c13.25

This settlement was one of ‘squatters’ among the Harappā ruins of the I*c* phase, and, while there seems to have been some rough rebuilding of house walls with brickbats robbed from other parts of the site, other huts seem to have been made of some perishable walling, such as matting, roughly set round a rectangular brick floor, which in one instance was some 17 by 8 feet overall. These brick floors might also be interpreted as stances for tents, and at all events they suggest rather squalid and not very permanent settlement on the site. Fireplaces are an interesting innovation, sometimes roughly built into doorways or niches of ruinous house walls or made of small rectangular or curved settings of bricks on edge.