Dholavira- The zenith of Harappan town planning!

[war&peace]

If too much sun exposure caused skin cancer then all our ancestors would have died of skin cancer.

Btw i had added this part to my previous post which you might have missed -
"Yes ,they started covering their bare chest before Islam arrived. The rich and influential always wore a long cloth over their upper body, may because they could afford it. While the poorer people wore scantier clothes."

Perhaps they died of cancer...who knows...cancer diagnosis was not possible in the past and mostly people thought it was some influence by spirits and ghosts.
But the Godesses are often portrayed with scanty dresses so did they belong to the poor or the rich class or they had separate rules to follow?
I want also to quantify how Islam and Muslim rule affected the local culture and traditions with respect to dressing, food, architecture, living etc and how the trends changed under colonial rule and after the independence.

There are certain ocasions where everyone wears traditional clothes marriages being one such occasion. Down south it is compulsory among men and women to wear traditional clothes to enter certain temples.
In northern India, specially the villages you will see men and women wearing traditional dresses.

Okay thanks but does the traditional dress for men means saree too?

 

[Levina]

But the Godesses are often portrayed with scanty dresses so did they belong to the poor or the rich class or they had separate rules to follow?

In India,where women were considered a symbol of fertility,it wasn't considered sacrilegious to portray them in different forms, at times sans clothes.
Our ancestors were very broad minded that way.

Perhaps they died of cancer...who knows...cancer diagnosis was not possible in the past and mostly people thought it was some influence by spirits and ghosts.

perhaps you've missed this headline
Cancer 'is purely man-made' say scientists after finding almost no trace of disease in Egyptian mummies

 

[war&peace]

In India,where women were considered a symbol of fertility,it wasn't considered sacrilegious to portray them in different forms, at times sans clothes.
Our ancestors were very broad minded that way.

Boradminded... idk...I think it was more subject to availability and awareness and evolution of the society especially through interaction. As you mentioned in your previous post that women of rich class wore less scantier dresses than the women of the poor class right? ...so how was it the case of broadmindedness?...The general direction is towards more civilised society, before humans lived in forests and caves, ate uncooked food and walked naked, a bit later, they discovered fire, covering to protect them from the weather, basic form of houses made of mud and straws and fast forwarded thousand years, humans got proper dressing with embellishment, homes made from brick and clay with decorations etc....so dress is an integral part of the evolution of the human socieites. There are still totally disconnencted tribes in far flung areas of the Amazons, Africa and Andaman Islands people still live unclothed and as soon as some of them come in contact with outside world and get an exposure to human civlisation, they also change.

perhaps you've missed this headline
Cancer 'is purely man-made' say scientists after finding almost no trace of disease in Egyptian mummies

Mummies do not reflect the general health of masses since only members of royal family were mummified and they have had access to more dresses, protection and better food. Moreover they spent more time indoors.

 

[Levina]

Boradminded... idk...I think it was more subject to availability and awareness and evolution of the society especially through interaction. As you mentioned in your previous post that women of rich class wore less scantier dresses than the women of the poor class right? ...so how was it the case of broadmindedness?...The general direction is towards more civilised society, before humans lived in forests and caves, ate uncooked food and walked naked, a bit later, they discovered fire, covering to protect them from the weather, basic form of houses made of mud and straws and fast forwarded thousand years, humans got proper dressing with embellishment, homes made from brick and clay with decorations etc....so dress is an integral part of the evolution of the human socieites. There are still totally disconnencted tribes in far flung areas of the Amazons, Africa and Andaman Islands people still live unclothed and as soon as some of them come in contact with outside world and get an exposure to human civlisation, they also change.

Do you see a difference in the way ppl living near the poles and the Africans dress?
Over dressing is a necessity at times though i dont support it in extreme heat.I hope you got the drift of it.

Mummies do not reflect the general health of masses since only members of royal family were mummified and they have had access to more dresses, protection and better food. Moreover they spent more time indoors.

I'm sure the scientists know better than you.
If you want to make this thread exclusively a cloth discussion then sorry, you should take this discussion elsewhere. Not on my thread pls.

 

[war&peace]

I'm sure the scientists know better than you.
If you want to make this thread exclusively a cloth discussion then sorry, you should take this discussion elsewhere. Not on my thread pls.

I did not even make a comment on the science rather a general historical fact that the mummies belonged to the rich .
Aahhh I see.... ..sir if you check your comment, you picked that part of my discussion and started until I guess you ran out of logic...so that's a normal trait of the people when they start losing...so I don't mind.

 

[Levina]

I did not even make a comment on the science rather a general historical fact tha mummies belong rich .
Aahhh I see.... ..sir if you check your comment, you picked that part of my discussion and started until I guess you ran out of logic...so that's normal trait of the people.

Run out of logic?
Sorry i ran out of patience, because i dont like banging my head against a wall.

And i picked up that part of your post because i saw you had not received an answer for it. This happens to be my thread and ergo i answered your query.
Now buzz off.

 

[war&peace]

Run out of logic?
Sorry i ran out of patience, because i dont like banging my head against a wall.

And i picked up that part of your post because i saw you had not received an answer for it. This happens to be my thread and ergo i answered your query.
Now buzz off.

A typical indication of short temperament resulting in extreme bhaviours. Whatever...the truth is there in the comments for anyone to read and see for himself

 

[Levina]

Whatever...the truth is there in the comments for anyone to read and see for himself

Ofcourse.
I knew which way you were headed.
SO lets stop being off topic now.

 

[Mugwop]

How would you know? Did you find any fossil skull fragments and take measurements? :p

Historically only people of Caucasian or North Asian (purer Mongoloid) ancestry have been observed to be capable of developing 'high culture' that involves attachment to man made objects (and sometimes distant, more archaic human populations have been able to assimilate into these cultures when invaded by these tribes).

Even today, if you look around, you will see that the indigenous cultures of Africans and tropical people (peninsular Indians, SE Asians, Pacific Islanders) are "close to nature" - i.e. they are unable to craft complex culture based on abstract ideas. I say 'even today', because that fact that they're in the 21st century has no bearing on a phenomena that's rooted in genetics.

She looks black too me

 

[Levina]

She looks black too me

My dear that is a bronze statue and bronze is brown in colour.
Below is the bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, doesn't mean he was black.
Btw why are we discussing skin color?

 

[Mugwop]

My dear that is a bronze statue and bronze is brown in colour.
Below is the bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, doesn't mean he was black.
Btw why are we discussing skin color?

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Look at the facial features on the statue I posted "Big lips,Big nose,"
Harappans braided their hair also.

 

[Levina]

Look at the facial features on the statue I posted "Big lips,Big nose,"
Harappans braided their hair also.

Harappan priest.
With big lips but appears mangolian to me.

 

[Mugwop]

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Harappan priest.
With big lips but appears mangolian to me.

Harappan Priest
with big lips,big nose,braided hair and Khoisan eyes.

You have 2 pukhtoon?? what does that mean?

 

[kaykay]

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Harappan priest.
With big lips but appears mangolian to me.

He looks like Modi to me...lolz. Anyway great thread.

 

[Levina]

You have 2 pukhtoon?? what does that mean

That was @Pukhtoon 's quote about me which made it to my signature.
He compared me to a hindutva extremist. He can explain it better.

He looks like Modi to me...lolz. Anyway great thread.

Haha
Made it to my tweets.