An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.288

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Most of the Harappa sites have on the surface sherds of the SOTHI/KALIBANGAN I Ware [11.2] though according to the recent observation of Dikshit, 1979, they are only limited in quantity down KALIBANGAN. Another feature is that the PGW settlements never overlie the Harappa ones, even though they may exist in very close proximity to each other. (For example TARKHANEWALA-DERA is within stone’s throw from CHAK 86, a PGW site). This feature is noticed elsewhere also, for example at Hulas, Dt Saharanpur, now (1979) under excavation (information from K.N. Dikshit). In fact except at ROPAR and ALAMGIRPUR nowhere are the PGW people known to have utilized the pre-existing Harappa mounds to settle upon. (The overlap between the late Harappa and PGW at such sites as BHAGWANPURA has to be seen in a different light.) This seems to confirm the hypothesis of Burrow, 1963, that the Vedic Aryans (assuming the identity of the PGW people with the Aryans, whether the early or later ones is irrelevant here) avoided the deserted older settlements which are called *arma* in early and late Vedic literature.