More than 5,000 years ago, India’s first civilization flourished with well-planned cities, civic amenities, and a developed economy. Since the first discovery of this civilization in 1920-21 at Harappa in the Indus valley, hundreds of sites spread over more than a million square kilometers in the Indian subcontinent have been excavated, many of these in northern and western India. Sites are still being discovered constantly adding to our knowledge of this completely urban civilization which continued up to circa 1400 BCE. This book focuses on some of the recently discovered sites inIndia, and utilizes the finds from locations in the Gangetic Doab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Gujarat for the dating of the civilizatioin, its llife, town-planning social and economic infrastructure, religious practices, script, trading activities, crafts, griculture, and pastoral life. Some of the interesting discoveries included in the volume are remains of earliest ploughed field in the subcontinent, a hoard of Late Harappan jewellery, and different kinds of pottery. The volume is important for the study of later Indian civilizations, and many of the elements of our civilization today are rooted in the life and times of the Indus civilization sites.
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