Solution:
Burials:
Archaeologists use certain strategies to find out about the social or economic differences amongst people living within a particular culture . Hence, Statement 1 is correct.
These include studying burials.
Example: the massive pyramids of Egypt, (some of which were contemporaneous with the Harappan civilization ).
Many of these pyramids were royal burials , where enormous quantities of wealth were buried .
At burials in Harappan sites, the dead were generally laid in pits .
Sometimes, there were differences in the way the burial pit was made.
Sometimes, the hollowed-out spaces were lined with bricks.
Some graves contain pottery and ornaments , perhaps indicating a belief that these could be used in the afterlife.
Hence, Statement 2 is incorrect.
Jewellery has been found in burials of both men and women .
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.
It appears that the Harappans did not believe in burying precious things with the dead.
Weights:
Exchanges were regulated by a precise system of weights, usually made of a stone called chert and generally cubical
The lower denominations of weights were binary (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc. up to 12,800 ), while the higher denominations followed the decimal system. Hence, Statement 3 is incorrect.
The smaller weights were probably used for weighing jewellery and beads .
Metal scale-pans have also been found.
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