Deadman Lane Deadman Lane is a narrow alley, varying from 3 to 6 feet in width. At the point where the lane turns westward, part of a skull and the bones of the thorax and upper arm of an adult were discovered, all in very friable condition, at a depth of 4 ft 2 inch. The body lay on its back diagonally across the lane. Fifteen inches to the west were a few fragments of a tiny skull. It is to these remains that the lane owes its nature.

Sixteen skeletons of people with the ornaments that they were wearing when they died, were found from the same part of Mohenjodaro in 1925.

A. Why is the lane called Deadman lane?

B. What did some scholars and archaeologists conclude from this information?

C. Who was John Marshall and how did Marshall tend to excavate?

D. Why are earlier interpretations sometimes reversed?