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Write a note about the burials in Harappan culture.

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The following things have been found in burials at the Harappan sites:
(i) Jewellery has been traced in burials of both men and women.
(ii) During the excavations at the cemetery in Harappa in the mid 1980s, an ornament consisting of three shell rings, a jasper bead and hundreds of micro-beads were found near the skull of a male.
(iii) Some graves had pottery and ornaments which indicated a belief that these could be used in the afterlife.
(iv) The deads were buried with copper mirrors.
(v) Throughout the length and breadth of Harappan settlement the archaeologists have found querns, pottery, needles, flesh-rubbers, remains of dogs etc.
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