Apart from the above-mentioned sites of pre- historical India, there are many important sites which have bearing on either the development of Harappan civilization or on the historical period.

Such sites are Nal in the Khozdar area, Kulli culture, Sothi culture etc. The Nal culture site was excavated in 1925. Here structures were built by utilizing the boulders of a local river as well as using large quarried stones from neighbouring hills.

The shape of Nal pottery is distinctive: narrow- mouthed, ovoid form with a disc-base; narrow- mouthed carinated form with a disc-base: almost straight walled jars with a disc-base; disc-based open bowl; a carinated form with an inward-turning upper body; and a flat-bottomed canister with a round and straight-edged mouth. Naturalistic representations of fish and ibex occur as a motif.

Here an infant’s grave was found in a small chamber made by setting mud-bricks on edge and the grave goods included 16 beads, and a crystal pendant. The material culture included copper edge, saw, chisel, knife, seal, silver foil, carbonate of lead, lead slag, limestone weights, grinding stones, cattle figurines, beads of crystal, agate, carnelian, lapis lazuli etc. According to Fairservis, the Nal settlements used an effective system of harnessing water.

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Kulli culture was exposed at Kulli, Mehi, Nindowari, Niai Buthi and Edith Shahr. Kulli showed multi-roomed stone structures, two massive stone querns, beads of black stone, lapis lazuli, agate and carnelian, bangles and some amounts of copper, gold and glass. Pottery is decorated, characteristic feature of which is elongated animal forms with large and round eyes shown in framed landscape another site Mehi hasyieided evidence of cremation and the subsequent burial of ashes and bones. At Nindowari, there is a central, stepped structural complex, typical Kulli pottery, terracotta mother goddess figurines, painted bull figurines and two Indus seals. At Edith Shahr there is a series of stepped platforms with Kuli pottery and mother goddess figurines.

Sothi in the Ghaggar Hakra belt of Rajasthan was excavated in 1952 and A. Ghosh spoke of the ‘Sothi substratum’ of the Indus Civilization. Its pottery has close similarity with the pottery obtained at Kot Diji. It is a phase which immediately preceded the Indus civilization known as Kot Diji phase and has been found at Jalilpur, Harappa, Kalibangan, Kunal, Banawali etc.

Other important cultures are Gandhara Grave culture at Loebanr, Aligrama, Birkot Ghundai, Kherari, Lalbatai, Timargarha, Balambat, Kalako, Deray and Zarif Karuna – all situated in the northern mountains in Peshawar-Chitral area. Copper hoards have been found in Upper Ganga Valley, Chhotanagpur plateau and Balaghat area.