Ancient Discovery Changes view on Vedic India

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Archeologists find first human graves

 

"So far, the people of Painted Greyware culture were believed by

scholars to be belonging to the later Vedic age. In the absence of

any such evidence, they were thought to have been cremating their

dead bodies," says Anup Ranjan Mishra, archeologist at the Rohilkhand

University."

 

New Delhi, June 8 (PTI): The recent discovery of two human burial

sites belonging to the Painted Greyware Culture (PGW) of 1100 BC at

the Abhaipur village of Uttar Pradesh has changed the archeologists'

perception about the PGW culture as a whole.

 

A team of archeologists from Bareilly-based MJP Rohilkhand University

has excavated two human skeletons of an adult and a child from

Abhaipur-Chena-Naktikera site. A set of pottery bearing the traces of

the PGW culture have also been retrived from the site.

 

"So far, the people of Painted Greyware culture were believed by

scholars to be belonging to the later Vedic age. In the absence of

any such evidence, they were thought to have been cremating their

dead bodies," says Anup Ranjan Mishra, archeologist at the Rohilkhand

Uuniversity.

 

"However, this discovery has totally changed the view and made the

scholars to re-think and give a fresh look at the culture," says

Mishra under whose guidance the excavations were carried out.

 

The major concentration sites of the PGW culture, according to

Mishra, is found across the Upper Ganga valley, spreading upto the

Indo-Pak border areas covering Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar

Pradesh and Kashmir.

 

Though the Archeological Survey of India and various other varsities

have excavated a number of sites belonging to this era, this is the

first time that human skeletons have been found, he said.

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