The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.2

c14.2

Important excavations near the ancient city sites of Taxila, Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Ahichchatra etc., were carried out before 1944. But, as aids for reconstructing the cultural sequence in the country, we have to depend on a large number of vertical excavations carried out in different parts of the country. It must be said to the credit of Sir Mortimer, that the idea of correlating the regions to get at a historical sequence is his. The following list of excavated sites conveys a full idea of the nature of the evidence on which this reconstruction is built (Fig. 23).