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Archaeology is not a science, it’s a vendetta.

— Mortimer Wheeler Attributed

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The anthropologists who have recently described the skeletons from Harappa remark that there, as at Lothal, the population would appear, on the available evidence, to have remained more or less stable to the present day.

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