The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c13.34

c13.34

In view of the distinctiveness of the pottery of cemetery H at Harappa, it is a pity that no proper report on the abundant skeletal material is available. We are merely told that "the racial types represented in the collection comprise a large-headed, dolichocephalic people with well-developed supra-orbital ridges and high cranial roof, long face and prominent nose", and are comparable with the proto-Australoids of Mohenjo-daro. It is vaguely added in amplification that the jar-burials of stratum I indicated "a definite admixture with a small, low-headed race, such as is seen among the present aboriginal population of India.... The Harappā remains also demonstrate the presence of a non-Armenoid, and probably also of an Armenoid-Alpine race in the Indus Valley during chalcolithic times, whose presence was surmised at Mohenjo-daro from the presence of a single skull of a child."¹ It is to be hoped that in the fulness of time a detailed report will be issued.