{"id":222521,"date":"2023-01-14T19:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=222521"},"modified":"2023-01-14T19:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T13:53:02","slug":"juna-khatiya-site-gujarats-harappan-necropolis-reveals-death-rituals-of-5000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/juna-khatiya-site-gujarats-harappan-necropolis-reveals-death-rituals-of-5000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Juna Khatiya Site: Gujarat\u2019s Harappan necropolis reveals death rituals of 5,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Gujarat\u2019s Harappan necropolis reveals death rituals of 5,000 years ago<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 13th January 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excavations at one of the biggest necropolises at Juna Khatiya village (Kutch, Gujarat) show rows of graves with valuable items such as Ceramic pots, beaded jewellery, animal bones etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Juna Khatiya Site<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located about 30 km from Lakhpat in Kutch district, Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has emerged as one of the biggest Harappan burial sites with the possibility of 500 graves of which about 125 have been found so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The archaeologists found rows of graves with skeletal remains, ceramic pots, plates and vases, beaded jewellery and animal bones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The burials discovered at this site date from 3,200 BCE to 2,600 BCE, predating <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dholavira-in-gujarat-on-unesco-world-heritage-list\/\">Dholavira<\/a><\/strong>\u2014a UNESCO World Heritage Site\u2014and several other Harappan sites in the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site is important because others like Dholavira have a cemetery in and around the town, but no major habitation has been discovered near Juna Khatiya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site demonstrates the transition from earth-mound burials to stone graves. The pottery from the site has features and styles similar to those excavated from early Harappan sites in Sindh and Balochistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cGujarat\u2019s Harappan necropolis reveals death rituals of 5,000 years ago\u201d published in The Hindu on 13th January 2023. What is the News? Excavations at one of the biggest necropolises at Juna Khatiya village (Kutch, Gujarat) show rows of graves with valuable items such as Ceramic pots, beaded&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/juna-khatiya-site-gujarats-harappan-necropolis-reveals-death-rituals-of-5000-years-ago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Juna Khatiya Site: Gujarat\u2019s Harappan necropolis reveals death rituals of 5,000 years ago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-222521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":43,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698451827},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}