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Indus Valley Civilisation pot from Harappan phase found at Quetta in Baluchistan, c. 2500-1900 BCE. Indus Valley Civilisation has an ancient tradition of pottery making. Though the origin of pottery in India can be traced back to the much earlier Mesolithic age, with coarse handmade pottery - bowls, jars, vessels - in various colours such as ...
Indus Valley Civilisation. Excavated ruins of Mohenjo-daro, Sindh province, Pakistan, showing the Great Bath in the foreground. Mohenjo-daro, on the right bank of the Indus River, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first site in South Asia to be so declared. Miniature votive images or toy models from Harappa, c. 2500 BCE.
The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script and the Indus Valley Script, is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation. Most inscriptions containing these symbols are extremely short, making it difficult to judge whether or not they constituted a writing system used to record a Harappan language, any of which are yet ...
Inventions. Computer-aided reconstruction of Harappan coastal settlement in Pakistan on the westernmost outreaches of the civilisation. An ancient well, and the city drainage canals, in Lothal, Gujarat, India. Button, ornamental: Buttons—made from seashell —were used in the Indus Valley Civilisation for ornamental purposes by 2000 BCE. [1]
The Painted Grey Ware culture (PGW) is an Iron Age Indo-Aryan culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley in the Indian subcontinent, conventionally dated c. 1200 to 600–500 BCE, [1][2] or from 1300 to 500–300 BCE. [3][4][5] It is a successor of the Cemetery H culture and Black and red ware culture (BRW) within this ...
Periods. Hakra Wares to Mature Harappan. Cultures. Hakra Ware culture, Indus Valley civilization. Site notes. Excavation dates. 2003–2006. Bhirrana, also Bhirdana and Birhana, (IAST: Bhirḍāna) is an archaeological site, located in a small village in the Fatehabad district of the north Indian state of Haryana. [web 1][5][web 2] Bhirrana's ...
The Indus Valley civilization employed rulers made of ivory for measuring length circa 1500 BCE. [45] The Mohenjo-Daro ruler is divided into units corresponding to 34 millimetres (1.32 in) and these are further marked in decimal subdivisions with great accuracy, to within 0.13 mm (0.005 in).
Ochre Coloured Pottery culture during Indus Valley Civilization, Late Phase (1900-1300 BCE) The 'Ochre Coloured Pottery culture is "generally dated 2000-1500 BCE," [ 1 ] Early specimens of the characteristic ceramics found near Jodhpura, Rajasthan , date from the 3rd millennium (this Jodhpura is located in the district of Jaipur and should not ...