INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilization. Evidence of double burial (burying a male and a female in a single grave) has been found here. The most common method of burial was found in Kalibangan.

Detailed explanation-2: -Couple burial was found from Lothal at the Harappan sites. Lothal was one of the southernmost city of the ancient Indus valley civilisation located in the Bhal region of Gujarat. Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animals, sometimes with objects, into the ground.

Detailed explanation-3: -The only joint burial of a couple discovered earlier has been from Lothal in Gujarat. But there, the skeletal remains of the male and female were found placed over one other, indicating that they may have been buried at the same place, but at different times.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lothal is a small mature Harappan settlement near Gulf of Khambat in Dhalka taluk of Ahmadabad in Gujrat. It was first excavated in 1957 by S R Rao. The notable structures at Lothal include a dockyard, warehouse, workshop for manufacturing of stone beads, evidence of shell working, rice husk and a cemetery.

Detailed explanation-5: -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. This report is the first anthropologically confirmed case of coupled burial from a Harappan cemetery.