A sunken rectangular bath or pool was found at ____________, but similar baths have not been found at contemporaneous cities in the Indus Valley.

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The prompt presents a question about a sunken rectangular bath or pool and notes that similar baths have not been found at contemporaneous cities in the Indus Valley.

Because the provided answer_options array is empty, there are no alternative choices to evaluate or compare against the stated correct answer. This means we cannot perform a option-by-option analysis as requested for all choices.

From a general knowledge perspective, the most well-known sunken rectangular bath in the Indus Valley Civilization is the Great Bath of Mohenjo-Daro. This feature is distinctive because:
- It is a deliberate architectural installation centered around ritual or communal purification practices associated with Mohenjo-Daro.
- It stands out in the archaeological record of the Indus Valley because other contemporary sites (in the broader region) have not yielded similarly large, formalized bath facilities of comparable design and scale.
- Its preservation and the extent of accompanying urban planning (brick-lined pool, surrounding changing rooms, drainage features) contribute to its uniqueness among Indus Valley sites.

Given these points, if the question is asking which site contains a sunken rectangular bath that is not paralleled at contemporaneous Indus Valley cities, Mohenjo-Daro is the most fitting answer based on the standard archaeological record.

If additional answer choices were available, we would compare each option to this criterion: does the site have a sunken rectangular bath like Mohenjo-Daro’s Great Bath, and is there scholarly consensus about the absence of a comparable feature at other contemporary Indus cities? Any option lacking these characteristics would be incorrect, while the option matching Mohenjo-Daro would be supported by the distinctive Great Bath evidence.

ARCH100 OL01 Final Exam - April 14-20, 2025

A sunken rectangular bath or pool was found at ____________, but similar baths have not been found at contemporaneous cities in the Indus Valley.

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