Question

What were the difference in the techniques adopted by Marshall and Wheeler in studying harappa civilization

Answer 1

Marshall tended to excavate along regular horizontal units, measured uniformly throughout the mound, ignoring the startigraphy of the site.

This means that all the artifacts recovered from the same unit were grouped together, even if they were found at the different startographic layers. As a result, valuable information about the context of these find was irretrievably

lost. R.E.M. Wheeler rectified this problem. Wheeler rectified that it was necessary to follow the stratigraphy of the mound rather than dig mechanical along uniform horizontal line.