Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.7

c13.7

The inhumations where identified all appeared to be of complete bodies lying on their backs or sides with the legs flexed. Grave-goods in most instances consisted of groups of pots, but copper or bronze tools and ornaments, stone beads and alabaster cups also occurred. Two burials, Stein’s A and B, had richer grave-goods than the others. The skeleton discovered in burial A seems to have been that of a man buried crouched on his right side; in the grave there were more than fifty pottery bowls, cups and beakers, a copper stamp-seal, a stone pestle, a bead of ruby-like stone, a stone blade and a group of twelve marine shells (*Natica asellus*) against the skull. Burial B (certainly male) had again a wealth of pottery vessels stacked in ‘nests’ of up to five bowls, a necklace of lapis, agate and onyx beads, a copper spear-head and a heavy, shaft-hole copper axe. The presence of animal bones, some charred, in certain of the vessels accompanying these and other burials suggests that funeral bakemeats had been deposited with the corpse.