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Week 7 - Decline of The Indus
Week 7 - Decline of The Indus
Indus Sequence
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What Changes?
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Cemetery H
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Cemetery H
burial jar
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• Bead jar
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Majumdar, 1920s
Mughal, 1970s
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Rangpur
(Gujarat)
Urba Post-
n urban
Rao, 1964 5 87
Possehl 1980 18 152
Possehl and 370 237
Mehta 1994
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Explanations:
invasion
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Skeleton in lane
between XVIII
and XXXIII, VS
area (Deadman’s
Lane)
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BUT
➢ 37 skeletons in Mohenjodaro; none in upper
town
➢ Problems in excavation (archaeologists at the
time disagree)
➢ All skeletons not deposited at one time or
related to each other/the context
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Explanations: Cultural
• decline in long distance trade
• More contact with central Asia
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• Arabian coast
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618216315622?via%3Dihub
https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/current-projects/tworains/publications
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