An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s9.44

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The skeletal remains [15.2] recovered from these burials throw some light on the racial composition of the Indus people. They included variously the Mediterraneans, Proto-Australoids, Alpines and even Mongoloids. Such a cosmopolitan character seems to be quite in keeping with the urbanized Indus settlements: whereas the Mediterraneans and Alpines may have originally come from the w. The Proto-Australoids seem to have been autochthonous. The Mongoloids, accounting for a smaller number, evidently descended from the hilly regions.