
Climate, economic, and social changes all played a role in the process of urbanization and collapse, but little was known about how these changes affected the human population, Dr Gwen Robbins Schug, an associate professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, explained in a statement.
"The collapse of the Indus Civilization and the reorganization of its human population has been controversial for a long time," Schug said, who is the lead author of a paper, published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Schug and an international team of researchers examined evidence for trauma and infectious disease in the human skeletal remains from three burial areas at Harappa, one of the largest cities in the Indus Civilization, the University said in a media release.
The results of their analysis counter longstanding claims that the Indus civilization developed as a peaceful, cooperative, and egalitarian state-level society, without social differentiation, hierarchy, or differences in access to basic resources, it said.
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Thiruvalluvar(Tamil:
திருவள்ளுவர், Tiruvaḷḷuvar ), is a celebrated Tamil poet and
philosopherwhose contribution to Tamil literature is the Thirukkural, a
work on ethics. He was born in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu.
Thiruvalluvar is thought to have lived sometime between the 1st century
BC and the 8th century AD. This estimate is based on linguistic analysis
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Indian Sadhu Amar Bharati claims to have kept his hand raised for 38
years in devotion to Hindu deity Shiva. One day in 1970, Bharati left
his job, wife, and three children in order to pursue his devotion to
Shiva; three years later he felt he was still too connected to the
luxury of mortal life, and decided to raise his arm and keep it raised
in order to disconnect himself from said luxuries of mortal life.