Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.43

c13.43

Unquestionable evidence of the arrival of newcomers at Harappā after the main phase of occupation of the city is, however, afforded by the large cemetery H, itself of two periods, both of which have been shown by the recent excavations to be later than the R 37 cemetery, of Harappā age. This latter cemetery was situated in a natural hollow, which, at some time after the disuse of the cemetery, was filled up level with debris which contained a mass of Harappā potsherds, and it was into this debris, at a point some 120 yards to the north-east of cemetery R 37, that the graves of cemetery H were dug. It is characteristic of the conservatism of the Harappā Culture that no significant change in the types of pottery could be detected between the layers underlying the R 37 cemetery, the cemetery itself, or either of the two debris-layers overlying it. But with cemetery H the change is abrupt and decisive.