Cremation and complete absence of grave goods in IVC

[W.11]

Has anybody noticed that there is characteristic lack of grave archaeology in the indus valley civilization?, grave culture is one of the single most important source of treasures from ancient periods and its lack of presence in IVC has resulted in lack of shiny treasures from the IVC, although cemetaries have been located in rakhigarhi, haryana and late harappa which is more like a urn grave compared to burial, but just few miles from mehrgarh, in shehr e sukhta in balochistan, iran, we see prominance of grave culture where graves are not only present but marked with tombstones. Moving west, we have elaborate royals burials in mesopotamia, cemetry of ur and royal tombs of tutekhamon in ancient egypt. Moving east there is Sanxingdui culture with their elaborate grave culture and further east there are royal chinese tombs. Moving further east in insular philippines we again see megalithic burials. There are some megalithic tombs in south india as well but this is completely in contrast to most south asian culture of the utter lack and absence of grave burials.

Dr JM Kenoyer, an imminent archaeologist commenting on the most prominent and prevalent form of funeral in the indus valley civilization was cremation.

https://www.livescience.com/south-asians-descend-from-harappan-civilization.html

 

[MastanKhan]

Has anybody noticed that there is characteristic lack of grave archaeology in the indus valley civilization? although cemetaries have been located in rakhigarhi, haryana and late harappa which is more like a urn grave compared to burial, but just few miles from mehrgarh, in shehr e sukhta in balochistan, iran, we see prominance of grave culture where graves are not only present but marked with tombstones. Moving west, we have elaborate royals burials in mesopotamia, cemetry of ur and royal tombs of tutekhamon in ancient egypt. Moving east there is Sanxingdui culture with their elaborate grave culture and further east there are royal chinese tombs. Moving further east in insular philippines we again see megalithic burials. There are some megalithic tombs in south india as well but this is completely in contrast to most south asian culture of the utter lack and absence of grave burials.

Dr JM Kenoyer, an imminent archaeologist commenting on the most prominent and prevalent form of funeral in the indus valley civilization was cremation.

https://www.livescience.com/south-asians-descend-from-harappan-civilization.html

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Hi,

Thank you---you have found something very interesting---. Has there been any notification of a graveyard around Moenjodaro or Harrapa or Taxilla---.

But then another explanation---our graveyards never fill up---even though 100's of thousand have died and we still go to that same old graveyard to get buried---why?

 

[W.11]

Hi,

Thank you---you have found something very interesting---. Has there been any notification of a graveyard around Moenjodaro or Harrapa or Taxilla---.

But then another explanation---our graveyards never fill up---even though 100's of thousand have died and we still go to that same old graveyard to get buried---why?

in Harappa a cemetary has been located but not other sites in IVC. one at rakhigarhi has also been located.

regards

 

[MastanKhan]

in Harappa a cemetary has been located but not other sites in IVC. one at rakhigarhi has also been located.

regards

Hi,

A couple of things come to mind---one is cremation---is the construction over the graveyards by the expanding population.

The large population centers that we see in pakistan were not that big a 100 years ago---.