Posted on 10/07/2023 9:09:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Scientists have unveiled a sprawling burial site in India belonging to one of the world's earliest urban civilisations. The BBC's Soutik Biswas delves into the clues the graves might give us about how the early Indians lived and died.
In 2019, as scientists embarked on excavating a mound of sandy soil near a remote village in the sparsely populated Kutch region, situated not far from Pakistan in India's western state of Gujarat, they had no inkling of the surprise that lay in store for them.
"When we began digging, we thought it was an ancient settlement. Within a week, we realised it was a cemetery," says Rajesh SV, an archaeologist with the University of Kerala, who led the search.
How ancient DNA may rewrite prehistory in India Three excavation seasons - involving more than 150 Indian and international scientists - have been conducted so far at the 40-acre site. Researchers now estimate the presence of at least 500 graves of the Indus society, one of the world's earliest urban civilisations. (Some 200 of these graves have been excavated.)
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“I rather like the idea of having value and purpose AFTER I am dead.”
Simple—donate your body to “medical science” so students can carve up your remains to further their medical education!
Theres about ten acres of unmarked paupers graves in Third Calvary in NYC, sections 35 and 38. They were interred between 1918 and 1919 so you can guess what killed them. Get a google view of those sections and stand amazed at the scale of the death. Covid my ass...
I’m leaning toward a body farm, m’self...
once the cemeteries are discovered, when the archeos leave the sites will be plundered by people looking for “antiques” to sell.
There were a lot of arayan invasions of that area 5000 years ago. The aryans were a steppe people from north of the black sea and the caspian sea. they were herders mostly. But they developed the first chariots. They were gifted horse back riders. They invaded northern india, iran and all points east and west from their homelands. They formed last premodern great migration into Europe about 5000 years ago. they were preceded into europe by farmers from anatolia 7000-8000 years ago. All european men are descended from them.
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