Editing Lothal (section)

===Later Harappan culture===
[[File:Lothal - warehouse.jpg|thumb|upright 1.5|The warehouse of Lothal]]
Archaeological evidence shows that the site continued to be inhabited, albeit by a much smaller population devoid of urban influences. The few people who returned to Lothal could not reconstruct and repair their city, but surprisingly continued to stay and preserved religious traditions,{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} living in poorly built houses and reed huts. That they were the Harappan peoples is evidenced by the analyses of their remains in the cemetery. While the trade and resources of the city were almost entirely gone, the people retained several Harappan ways in writing,{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} pottery, and utensils. About this time ASI archaeologists record a mass movement of refugees from Punjab and Sindh into Saurashtra and to the valley of [[Sarasvati River|Sarasvati]] (1900–1700&nbsp;BCE).<ref name="RV">{{cite book
| title = Lothal
| publisher = [[Archaeological Survey of India]]
| author = S. R. Rao
| author-link = S. R. Rao
| pages = 13–15
| year = 1985
}}</ref> Hundreds of ill-equipped settlements have been attributed to this people as [[Cemetery H culture|''Late Harappans'']] a completely de-urbanised culture characterised by rising illiteracy,{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} less complex economy, unsophisticated administration and poverty.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} Though Indus seals went out of use, the system of weights with an 8.573&nbsp;gram (0.3024&nbsp;[[avoirdupois|oz avoirdupois]]) unit was retained. Between 1700 and 1600&nbsp;BCE, trade would revive again. In Lothal, Harappan ceramic works of bowls, dishes and jars were mass-produced. Merchants used local materials such as [[chalcedony]] instead of [[chert]] for stone blades. Truncated sandstone weights replaced hexahedron chert weights. The sophisticated painting style reduced itself to wavy lines, loops and fronds.