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Archaeologists generally use certain strategies to find out whether there were social or economic differences amongst people living within a particular culture. These include studying burials. You are probably familiar with the massive pyramids of Egypt, some of which were contemporaneous with the Harappan civilisation. Many of these pyramids were royal burials, where enormous quantities of wealth was buried.

Another strategy to identify social differences is to study artefacts, which archaeologists broadly classify as utilitarian and luxuries. The first category includes objects of daily use made fairly easily out of ordinary materials such as stone or clay. Archaeologists assume objects were luxuries if they are rare or made from costly, non-local materials or with complicated technologies.

Which of the following statements is correct?

Statement A- Harappans firmly believed in burying precious things with the dead.
Statement B- Some graves contain pottery and ornaments, perhaps indicating a belief that these could be used in the afterlife.

Only statement B is correct.

The correct answer is Option 2 - Only statement B is correct.

Given statements:

Statement A- Harappans firmly believed in burying precious things with the dead. (Incorrect)
Statement B- Some graves contain pottery and ornaments, perhaps indicating a belief that these could be used in the afterlife. (Correct)

Some graves contain pottery and ornaments, perhaps indicating a belief that these could be used in the afterlife. Jewellery has been found in burials of both men and women. In fact, in the excavations at the cemetery in Harappa in the mid-1980s, an ornament consisting of three shell rings, a jasper (a kind of semi-precious stone) bead and hundreds of microbeads was found near the skull of a male. In some instances, the dead were buried with copper mirrors. But on the whole, it appears that the Harappans did not believe in burying precious things with the dead.