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Early Harappan site recently discovered in Haryana

CHANDIGARH: The recent discovery of an early Harappan site at village Girawad near Madina in Haryana has further established that the Indian civilization is not only one of the oldest but also well rooted and highly developed.

The discovery of this site by officials of the Haryana Archeology Department would help in completing the missing links of ancient Indian History, Haryana Minister of State for Archives, Archaeology and Museums Meena Mandal said here on Sunday.

She said that the discovery of the sitetestified to cultural practices dating well before 3,000 BC.

The site is spread over an area of 25 acres and rises about 1.5 metres in height from the present surrounding ground level.

Upper deposit of about one metre had been removed by the villagers and also during construction of two metal roads. The material culture available from the site indicates that the economy of Girawad was based on agriculture only, she added.

Research was being carried out in Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Narwana, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Tarawari, Jind, Hansi, Noharbhadra, Karnal, Assand, Safidon, Meham, Tosham and Rohtak along a well- defined strip of contiguous area that is believed to represent the course of the erstwhile Saraswati river and Drishadvati river where a large number of prominent mounds were present. Most of these mounds were the `naturally preserved remains' of what possibly could be the remnants of the glorious civilizations and the extinct Saraswati river, she said.

She added that about 45 early-Harappan and Harappan sites had so far been discovered on the ancient river bed of Drishadvati and its tributaries in the Meham Block itself.

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