Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.45

c13.45

The later burials in cemetery H (Stratum I) were only some two to three feet below the present surface, and consisted of true fractional burials in large pots, without any accompanying grave-goods or offerings. The bones in many instances showed that the bodies must have been exposed after death for some time before burial, when only the skull and a few long bones were selected for deposition in the cemetery. About 140 such burials were found, and a dozen of these were of babies, buried whole and crouched up in the funeral jars. These jars were closed at the mouth by lids of broken pots. The pottery from both strata of the cemetery is dissimilar from that of the Harappā Culture, and although certain characteristic forms are confined to the upper and lower strata respectively, this distinction is functional rather than cultural, and the technique of ware and painting is essentially the same in both phases of the cemetery. We can then regard it as a whole, and as the product of one culture despite the change in burial customs.