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Is the Harappan civilisation 2000 years older?

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« on: November 23, 2012, 05:28:47 pm »

   
Is the Harappan civilisation 2000 years older?


The recent International Conference on Harappan Archaeology produced an unexpected announcement from archaeologists BR Mani and KN Dikshit, both of the Archaeological Survey of India, who claim that new dates from excavations show the Harappan culture began around 2000 years earlier than previously thought.
The ruins of the Harrapan city of Mohenjo-daro remained undocumented for over 3,700 years, until their discovery in 1922 by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India. He was led to the mound by a Buddhist monk, who reportedly believed it to be a stupa. Image: Wikimedia commons

The ruins of the Harrapan city of Mohenjo-daro remained undocumented for over 3,700 years, until their discovery in 1922 by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India. He was led to the mound by a Buddhist monk, who reportedly believed it to be a stupa. Image: Wikimedia commons
Redating of Harappan culture

Based on their research, which has yet to be fully published,  the two archaeologists said in a presentation: “The preliminary results of the data from early sites of the Indo-Pak subcontinent suggest that the Indian civilisation emerged in the 8th millennium BC in the Ghaggar-Hakra and Baluchistan area.”

“On the basis of radio-metric dates from Bhirrana (Haryana), the cultural remains of the pre-early Harappan horizon go back to between 7380 to 6201 BCE”.

This announcement was made at the International Conference on Harappan Archaeology by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in Chandigarh and contests the current theory that the settlements in the Indus region began around 3750 BCE.
Contemporary with the rise of civilisation in Mesopotamia

The preliminary findings from the Indus valley – if they are confirmed – would allow for the origin of Harappan Culture to be roughly contemporaneous with the rise of civilisation in Mesopotamia. The first definitive Mesopotamian civilisation of Sumer emerged in the Ubaid period around 6500 BCE.
A language connection?

The Sumerian texts that have been deciphered bear no relation to any nearby language,  however there is a hypothesis that the people living in coastal Iran between the two civilizations spoke what is described as an Elamo-Dravidian language.
Impression of an Indus Valley seal, showing an "Indus script" string of five characters. Image: Wikimedia

Impression of an Indus Valley seal, showing an “Indus script” string of five characters. Image: Wikimedia

Apart from the linguistic similarities, the Elamo-Dravidian Hypothesis (which is re-gaining credibility) rests on the assertion that agriculture spread from the Near East to the Indus Valley region via Elam. This would suggest that agriculturalists brought a new language as well as farming from Mesopotamia via Elam.  This is supported by ethno-botanical data tracking including the Near Eastern origin and spread of wheat and other crops. (Fuller 2003).

Later evidence of extensive trade between Elam and the Indus Valley Civilisation suggests ongoing links between the two regions.

The recent excavations have been carried out at two sites in Pakistan and Bhirrana, Kunal, Rakhigarhi and Baror in India and there is potential that further work may alter the present chronologies.

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« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2012, 05:29:21 pm »

The current chronology is:
Dates
   
Phase
   
Era
7000 – 5500 BCE
   
Mehrgarh
I (aceramic Neolithic)
   Early Food Producing Era

5500-3300
   
Mehrgarh II-VI (ceramic Neolithic)
   Regionalisation Era5500-2600
3300-2600    Early Harappan
3300-2800
   
Harappan 1 (Ravi Phase)
2800-2600
   
Harappan 2 (Kot Diji Phase, Nausharo I, Mehrgarh VII)
2600-1900    Mature Harappan (Indus Valley Civilization)    Integration Era
2600-2450
   
Harappan 3A (Nausharo II)
2450-2200
   
Harappan 3B
2200-1900
   
Harappan 3C
1900-1300    Late Harappan    Localisation Era
1900-1700
   
Harappan 4
1700-1300
   
Harappan 5
1300-300
   

Northern Black Polished Ware (Iron Age)
   

Indo-Gangetic Tradition
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Tehsil Phillaur, Harappan site. Image: Wikimedia
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The ruins of the Harrapan city of Mohenjo-daro remained undocumented for over 3,700 years, until their discovery in 1922 by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India. He was led to the mound by a Buddhist monk, who reportedly believed it to be a stupa. Image: Wikimedia commons

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Impression of an Indus Valley seal, showing an “Indus script” string of five characters. Image: Wikimedia
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