Consider the following statements regarding the mortuary practices discovered in Gujarat outposts:
1. The port town of Lothal has yielded unique instances of 'joint or double burials' where two skeletons were interred together inside a single brick-lined grave.
2. This practice was uniform and followed across all standard cemeteries in Mohenjo-daro and Harappa.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Statement 1 is correct; Lothal revealed three joint graves containing pair skeletons, providing valuable data on regional burial anomalies. Statement 2 is incorrect because double burials are virtually non-existent in the core Harappan sites, where single primary extended burials were the strict norm.

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