[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v1.c9.s9.44 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s9.44 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s9.44 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c9.s9.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s9.44) 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. - [Previous: v1.c9.s9.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s9.43) - [Next: v1.c9.s9.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s9.45) - [Up: v1.c9.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s9.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c9.s9.44) · Pramāṇa