Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.36

c13.36

The actual buildings and their construction show a falling-off in these latter-day levels as well: street frontages are not so strictly observed, brickwork may be shoddy, and large houses are divided up into smaller rooms to take more persons with a lowered standard of amenity. Pottery kilns are allowed to be built within the city boundaries in the DK area, one even in the middle of a street - a shocking piece of decadence which could never have been condoned by the City Fathers of an earlier generation. Insecurity, the threat of raids, the big houses split up into flats, the slackening of civic pride and the decline of residential areas of the city into industrial slums, are all familiar enough signs of decadence and impending collapse. And that raids, if nothing more, were taking place at this time is shown by the huddled skeletons of persons murdered in the street or on a staircase - murdered under circumstances where no one was concerned with giving them burial, but rather anxious to save his own life by flight.