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The problems of Archaelogical interpretation are perhaps most evident in the attempts to reconstruct religious practices of Harappans. Explain?

Answer:

The objects found in the excavation in Harappa seem like Hindu God and Goddesses. Archaeologists used the concept of knewn to unknown that is present to past and they relate the things with Hindu deities. Some examples are:

(1) Terracotta figurines of women, heavy jewelled some with elaborate head dresses.

(2) Stone statuory of Men which is seated with one hand on the knee - such as priest king.

(3) Great Bath and fire altars found in the Kalibangaa and Lothal.

(4) Some animals depicted on seals such as, unicorn ? one horned animal seem to be mythical, composite creatures.

(5) Some scales showing the figure of cross-legged in a logic posture surrounded by animals regarded as depiction of proto Shiva.

(6) Rudra in the Rigveda neither depicted as Pashupati not as a yogi. This depiction does not match with Shiva.

So these statutory bodies were not the men or women, some scholars suggest that they would be Shaman possibly.