The document summarizes key information about three important Indus Valley Civilization sites: Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and Kalibangan. Mohenjo-Daro had a grid-like street layout and houses arranged around central courts, as well as a public bathing system. Harappa was the first site excavated in the Indus Valley Civilization, which developed accurate standardized weights and measures and crafts like pottery and jewelry. Kalibangan was located on the Ghaggar River and distinguished by fire altars and evidence of plow agriculture, with excavations unearthing artifacts from the Harappan civilization.
The document summarizes key information about three important Indus Valley Civilization sites: Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and Kalibangan. Mohenjo-Daro had a grid-like street layout and houses arranged around central courts, as well as a public bathing system. Harappa was the first site excavated in the Indus Valley Civilization, which developed accurate standardized weights and measures and crafts like pottery and jewelry. Kalibangan was located on the Ghaggar River and distinguished by fire altars and evidence of plow agriculture, with excavations unearthing artifacts from the Harappan civilization.
The document summarizes key information about three important Indus Valley Civilization sites: Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and Kalibangan. Mohenjo-Daro had a grid-like street layout and houses arranged around central courts, as well as a public bathing system. Harappa was the first site excavated in the Indus Valley Civilization, which developed accurate standardized weights and measures and crafts like pottery and jewelry. Kalibangan was located on the Ghaggar River and distinguished by fire altars and evidence of plow agriculture, with excavations unearthing artifacts from the Harappan civilization.
The document summarizes key information about three important Indus Valley Civilization sites: Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and Kalibangan. Mohenjo-Daro had a grid-like street layout and houses arranged around central courts, as well as a public bathing system. Harappa was the first site excavated in the Indus Valley Civilization, which developed accurate standardized weights and measures and crafts like pottery and jewelry. Kalibangan was located on the Ghaggar River and distinguished by fire altars and evidence of plow agriculture, with excavations unearthing artifacts from the Harappan civilization.
• Street of 9m width divided the city in 12 blocks each of 365m x 244m.
• Layout of street was based on grid-iron pattern.
• Series of houses were arranged around open-to-sky central court. • They dependent fully on ventilation and roof lighting. • Houses with G+1 storey made of kiln-brick with complete bathing establishment. • It had a Great bath of 7m width, 12m length and 2.4m depth made of bricks at bottom and • bathing forming part of Hindu temple. • The Harappan civilization was located in the Indus River valley • This is the first site to be excavated in the Indus Valley Civilization. • The Indus River Valley Civilization, also known as Harappan civilization, developed the first accurate system of standardized weights and measures, some as accurate as to 1.6 mm. • Harappans created sculpture, seals, pottery, and jewelry from materials, such as terracotta, metal, and stone. • Mohenjo-Daro had a public bath worked by an indigenous hydraulic system. (This is a system of force applying at one point is transmitted to another point using an incompressible fluid).
A Bearded Head in stone was recovered
from Mohenjo-Daro. • Kalibangan was excavated in the year 1960. • This is located on the southern banks of the river Ghaggar. • Kalibangan is distinguished by its unique fire altars and "world's earliest attested ploughed field". • It is around 2900 BC that the region of Kalibangan developed into what can be considered a planned city. • Kalibangan excavations have unearthed Harappan seals, unknown scripts, stamps, human skeletons, copper bangles, coins, beads, toys, terracotta and shells.