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The presence of the skeleton, along with pottery artefacts and animal bones, that the team of archaeologists excavated from a hillock, locally called Padta Bet, point to the presence of a 5,200-year-old Harappan settlement that was 1.5 km from the mass burial ground of Juna Khatiya, an Early Harappan necropolis.
On his discovery of a Harappan cemetery in Kutch's Juna Khatiya, Prof Rajesh SV concluded the graveyard is spread over 16 hectare, making it the largest pre-urban Harappan cemetery discovered so far in India.
On his discovery of a Harappan cemetery in Kutch's Juna Khatiya, Prof Rajesh SV concluded the graveyard is spread over 16 hectare, making it the largest pre-urban Harappan cemetery discovered so far in India.
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The burial site, spread over 16 hectares in a Kutch village, is considered to be the largest pre-urban Harappan cemetery