Important Indus Valley Sites and Archaeological Discoveries

ALL GENERAL KNOWLEDGE POINT

ANCIENT INDIA HARAPPAN/INDUS CIVILIZATION

TOPIC: SITE AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS

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Site - Harappa

Archaeological finds-

1. 6 Granaries in a row
2. Working floors,
3. Work men's quarters
4. Virgin-Goddess (seal)
5. Cemetery (R-37, H)
6. Stone symbols of Lingam (male sex organ) and Yoni (female sex organ)
7. Painted pottery, 
8. Clay figures of Mother Goddess,W
9. heat and Barley in wooden mortar, 
10. Copper scale, 
11. Crucible for bronze,
12. Copper made mirror,
13. Vanity box, 
14. Dice.

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2.  Site-Mohenjodaro 

Archaeological finds-

1. Great Granary,
2. Great Bath (Largest building of civilization)
3. Assembly hall, Shell strips, 
4. Pashupati Mahadeva/Protoshivq (seal), 
5. Bronze Image of a nude women dancer,
6. Steatite image if bearded man, 
7. Human Skeletons huddled together, 
8. Painted seal (Demi-God), 
9. Clay figures of Mother Goddess,  
10. A fragment of woven cottoncotton, 
11. Brick Kilns, 
12. 2 Mesopotamian seals, 
13. 1398 seals (56% total seals of civilization) , 
14. Dice.

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3. Site-Chanhudaro

Archaeological finds-

1. City without a citade, 
2. Ink pot, Lipstick,  
3. Metal-workers', 
4. Shell ornaments makers' and bead makers' shops; 
5. Imprint of dogs paw on a brick, 
6. Terracotta model of a bullock cart, 
7. Bronze toy cart.

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4.Site-Lothal

Archaeological finds-

1. Dockyard, 
2. Rice husk, 
3. Metal workers , 
4. shell ornament makers and bead makers shoes, 
5. Fire altars, 
6. Terracotta figurine of a horse, 
7. Double burial (burying a male and a female in a single grave), 
8. Terracotta model of a ship, 
9. Dying vat, 
10. Persian/ Iranina seal,
11. Baharainean seal, 
12. Painted jar (bird and fox).

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5.Site-Kalibanga
Archaeological finds-

1. Ploughed field surface (Pre-Harappan), 
2. 7 Fire altar, 
3. Decorated Bricks, 
4. Wheels of a toy cart, 
5. Mesopotamian Cylinder seal.

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6.Site-Banawali

Archaeological finds-

1. Absence of chess board or gridiron pattern town planning, 
2. Lack  of systematic drainage system,  
3. Toy plough, 
4. Clay figures of Mother Goddess.

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7.Site-Dholavira

Archaeological finds-

1. A special water harnessing system and its storm water drainage system, 
2.  a hugewell and a bath (giant water reservoirs),
3. Only site to be divided into 3 parts, 
4. Largest Harappan inscriptions used for civic purposes ,
5.  A stadium .

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8.Site-Surkotada

Archaeological finds-

1. Bones of horse, 
2. Oval grave,
3.  Pot burials.

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9. Site-Daimabad
Archaeological finds-

1. Bronze pictures (Charioteer with chariot, Ox, elephant and rhinoceros)

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