Mehrgahrnow covers several ha and included large granaries Cotton suggests at least some irrigation.B. ![]() Small,four-sided houses, some of air-dried mud brick.Later ceramic component (5000 BC) has wheat,cotton (probably first domesticated in Indus), brick structures & brick-lined burials clay models ofhumans copper (not widespread till after 4000 BC) conch shell from the Arabian Sea, & turquoise &lapis-lazuli (from Iran & Arghanistan). has a pre-ceramic but agricul-tural component (cattle, sheep, goat, barley). First settled village life at sites like Mehrgahr asearly as 6500 B.C. Delta of Indus & coast port city of Lothal in GujaratPlain at SE margin of Harappan area III. South: Sind very hot & arid, agriculture restrictedto irrigated lands along river bottoms site ofMohenjo-DaroC. North: Punjab highlands, relatively high rainfall,site of Harappa)B. The Region (1000 miles NW-SE & 750 miles along Arabian Sea) A. Now more than 1,000 settlementsof Indus civilization known across an area of 1.25million sq km, bigger than that of Egypt or 3rd-mil-lenium-BC Mesopotamian empires. In the years 1914-1920 two expeditions began workat Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, and in 1924 Sir JohnMarshall announced to the world the discovery of aforgotten civilization launched a decade of inten-sive excavations. ![]() ![]() Several seals discovered and published in mid &late 19th century from Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa:script "clearly not Indian."C. Indus Civilization collapsed before the compositionof the hymns collected in the Rigveda, the oldesthistorical document of India (1200 B.C.).B. History of Rediscovery of the Indus Valley Civiliza-tion A. Week 16: Indus Valley(Harappan) Civilization I.
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