The Indus Civilisation: life in Bronze Age South Asia
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Is There Any Evidence of War?
I'm surprised by, from what's been said, the absence of militarism in the record. We don't have evidence for things like war fan or ruling class on the same scale as we see in other contemporaneous societies. The priest king statue, for example, is only about seven inches tall. Many of these things are very small. But we do have other evidence. So studies on burials,. including an ossary outside the city wall at Harappa have argued for social stratification.
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