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Harappa
Central Punjab is the location of this, one of the main centres of the Harappan (*Indus Valley) civilization. Harappa is a multi-level settlement of the Bronze Age; 27 km. to the south-west from Sahiwal (Pakistan). It was studied by R.B. Sahni (1921), M.S. Vats, K.N. Sastri, R.E.M. Wheeler and M.R. Mughal. The western tell was a rectangular citadel (Eight hectares), the eastern tell-the lower town (58.1 hectares). Two burials were investigated; the first (R-37) yielded burials of the Harappan culture, the second (H) consisted of two periods: the early one (cremation in graves) and later (fragmented burials in urns). All of them differ in anthropological material, which is an evidence of a mixed population and the long time of settlement. Harappa existed from the 3rd millennium BC to the 17th-16th centuries BC; burial ground 'H' was used in the 12th-11 th centuries BC.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: See Bibliography to Harappan Civilization.