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Mehrgarh is now seen as a precursor to the Indus Valley Civilization.
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Mehrgarh is located near the Bolan Pass, to the west of the Indus River valley and between the now Pakistani cities of Quetta, Kalat and Sibi.
Mehrgarh is probably the earliest known center of agriculture in South Asia.
The last period is found at the Sibri cemetery, about 8 KM from Mehrgarh.
* Mehrgarh is also spelled Mehrgahr, Merhgarh or Merhgahr.
Mehrgarh, ( 7000 – 5500 BCE ), on the Kachi Plain of Balochistan, is an important Neolithic site discovered in 1974, with early evidence of farming and herding, and dentistry.
The Mehrgarh site is one of the most important Neolithic sites in the world.
Trade in the stone is ancient enough for lapis jewelry to have been found at Predynastic Egyptian and ancient Sumerian sites, and as lapis beads at neolithic burials in Mehrgarh, the Caucasus, and even as far from Afghanistan as Mauritania.
There is also archeological evidence of date cultivation in Mehrgarh around 7000 BCE, a Neolithic civilization in western Pakistan.
Either way, the exclusively Central Asian BMAC material inventory of the Mehrgarh and Baluchistan burials is, in the words of, " evidence of an archaeological intrusion into the subcontinent from Central Asia during the commonly accepted time frame for the arrival of the Indo-Aryans ".
Mehrgarh and now
Mehrgarh ( Brahui: Mehrgaŕh, ), one of the most important Neolithic ( 7000 BCE to c. 2500 BCE ) sites in archaeology, lies on the " Kachi plain " of now Balochistan, Pakistan.
Mehrgarh Period II 5500 BCE – 4800 BCE and Merhgarh Period III 4800 BCE – 3500 BCE were ceramic Neolithic ( i. e., pottery was now in use ) and later chalcolithic.
Pottery was in use in ancient India, including areas now forming Pakistan and northwest India, during the Mehrgarh Period II ( 5, 500-4, 800 BCE ) and Merhgarh Period III ( 4, 800-3, 500 BCE ), known as the ceramic Neolithic and chalcolithic.
Mehrgarh and Indus
Other more recent findings, dated between 7, 000 and 6, 395 BC, come from Jericho, Catal Hüyük, and the ancient Indus Valley cities of Buhen, Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, and Mehrgarh.
The Indus Valley Civilization ( also known as Harappan culture ) has its earliest roots in cultures such as that of Mehrgarh, approximately 6000 BCE.
" Discoveries at Mehrgarh changed the entire concept of the Indus civilization ," according to Ahmad Hasan Dani, professor emeritus of archaeology at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, " There we have the whole sequence, right from the beginning of settled village life.
In 2001, archaeologists studying the remains of two men from Mehrgarh made the discovery that the people of the Indus Valley Civilization, from the early Harappan periods, had knowledge of proto-dentistry.
* Jarrige, C, J. F. Jarrige, R. H. Meadow, G. Quivron, eds ( 1995 / 6 ), Mehrgarh Field Reports 1974-85: From Neolithic times to the Indus Civilization.
* Indus and Mehrgarh archaeological mission: The Centre for Archaeological Research Indus Balochistan
Over the next several thousand years, the region would develop into various civilizations like Mehrgarh and the Indus Valley Civilization.
Between 2600 and 2000 BCE, region became more arid and Mehrgarh was abandoned in favour of the Indus Valley, where a new civilization was in the early stages of development.
Cotton was first cultivated in the Old World 7, 000 years ago ( 5th millennium BC ), by the inhabitants of Indus Valley civilisation currently situated in Western Pakistan, for example as the site of Mehrgarh where early cotton thread has been preserved in copper beads.
" Discoveries at Mehrgarh changed the entire concept of the Indus civilization ", according to Ahmad Hasan Dani, professor emeritus at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
The oldest granary yet found in this region was the Mehrgarh in the Indus Valley.
The history of science and technology in the Indian Subcontinent begins with prehistoric human activity at Mehrgarh, in present-day Pakistan, and continues through the Indus Valley Civilization to early states and empires.
These granaries are followed by those in Mehrgarh in the Indus Valley from 6000 BC.
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The South Asian inhabitants of Mehrgarh fashioned tools with local copper ore ( ore used as pigment ) between 7700 – 3300 BC.
Mehrgarh in Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian Fagan.
Early farming village in Mehrgarh, c. 7000 BCE, with houses built with mud brick s. ( Musée Guimet, Paris )
The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh — in the northeast corner of the site — was a small farming village dated between 7000 BCE to 5500 BCE and the whole area covers a number of successive settlements.
Early Mehrgarh residents lived in mud brick houses, stored their grain in granaries, fashioned tools with local copper ore, and lined their large basket containers with bitumen.
In April 2006, it was announced in the scientific journal Nature that the oldest ( and first early Neolithic ) evidence in human history for the drilling of teeth in vivo ( i. e. in a living person ) was found in Mehrgarh.
For the first time in the Indian Subcontinent, a continuous sequence of dwelling-sites has been established from 7000 BCE to 500 BCE, ( as a result of the ) explorations in Pirak from 1968 to 1974 ; in Mehrgarh from 1975 to 1985 ; and of Nausharo from 1985 to 1996.
The chalcolithic people of Mehrgarh also had contacts with contemporaneous cultures in northern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran and southern central Asia.
Mehrgarh Period I 7000 BCE – 5500 BCE, was Neolithic and aceramic ( i. e., without the use of pottery ).
Later, in April 2006, it was announced in the scientific journal Nature that the oldest ( and first early Neolithic ) evidence for the drilling of human teeth in vivo ( i. e. in a living person ) was found in Mehrgarh.
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