INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -More than two hundred bodies have been dug out at the excavated Harappan sites. The burials were primarily conducted in large pits, sometimes oval or even rectangular. They were lined with mud bricks. Sometimes they would contain a wooden coffin, evident only by the stains left on the sites after all these years.

Detailed explanation-2: -The burials were in the form of pits and sometimes these pits were lined with bricks also. This might signify that people higher in hierarchy were buried in brick-lined graves. Archaeologists also found jewellery, ornaments and pottery in burials of both men and women.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 2013–2016, we excavated the cemetery of the Rakhigarhi site (Haryana), the largest city of the Harappan Civilization. At the site, we found a grave that turned out to be a coupled (joint) burial of the primary type.

Detailed explanation-4: -4. Other archaeological finds suggest of long distance contacts which include Harappan seals, weights, dice and beads. All these evidences suggest that Harappan Civilisation was connected with Oman, Bahrain or Mesopotamia by sea.