An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s14.t1.5

v1.c9.s14.t1.5

There is evidence of burial practices from PANDU RAJAR DHIBI and HARAIPUR. A secondary burial represented by a headless skeleton, with grave goods including a plain black-and-red vessel and a pot of chocolate coloured were with paintings in white, was encountered at the lowest levels at PANDU RAJAR DHIBI. The succeeding phase yielded three types of burials—extended, fractional and urn. Five burials were of the extended type, in four of which the bodies were oriented e.-w.; in two the heads pointed to the e. and in the other two the heads were turned to the s., the details of the fifth one being uncertain. The grave offerings generally consisted of painted bright-red wares, copper bangles and in one case a fossil wood microlithic scraper. In addition a tubular copper bead was found along with a barrel-shaped bead of agate in one of the extended burials. A fractional burial is represented by a skeleton with severed ankles as at CHANDOLI and NEVASA in Maharashtra. Two single urn-burials covered with lids of black-and-red ware contained adult human bones. HARAIPUR yielded ten extended burials of children oriented n.-s., the heads slightly turned w., with no funerary objects.