Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.5

c13.5

This evidence of violence and of rapidly-changing populations can mean only that the RG IV and RG V phases represent a time of troubles, of insecurity and raiding, arson and pillaging in North Baluchistan. To the Rana Ghundai evidence can be added that of Nal, where the last phase of the Zhob-ware settlement on the site was also burnt down, to such a degree that the tell is still called Sohr Damb, the Red Mound, from its fire-reddened soil. At Dabar Kot the upper 6 feet of the tell, exposed in section, showed no less than four thick ash layers, implying repeated destructive conflagrations of the later settlements, and here there occurred abundant fragments of the encrusted ware of the RG V type on the surface. At this site too one of the later settlements was that of the Harappā folk, so the sacking of the settlement is approximately dated.