Chandigarh, February 22: THE excavations in Rakhigarhi, situated in Hisar, Haryana, have pushed back the history of civilisation by more than 500 years. “It is the largest Harappan site ever found,” said the director of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), New Delhi, Dr Amerendra Nath, while delivering a lecture on ‘Rakhigarhi - A Harappan Metropolis’ at the ICSSR Complex, Panjab University, today. The lecture was organised by the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, PU.
“The site yielded finds of the early Harappan and mature Harappan phase,” said Dr Nath. He said that features like knowledgeof writing, use of wedge-shaped bricks and town planning, earlier thought to be present in the mature phase i.e 2500 BC, were discovered to be present in the early phase i.e 3000 BC. Evidence of well-planned towns were found, he said.
Another article on the Harrapan civilization.
(the Indus Valley civilization)
Ah, yes....in India as well as Caral, Peru they continue to push back the dates.
Keeping digging lads and The Club be damned!
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Indeed, those dates keep rolling back. I've had a keen interest in the Harrapan civilization for quite a while. I think it's a rich and ripe archaeological locale.
If my memory serves right on this Beag Bruce would well up on this one. Far from being invaded as such it seems that the Romans were invited in by a tribe in the south of the country and that Romanisation was well under way before the Legions marched in.
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146 BC being the same year that Carthage was destroyed by the Romans and there seems to have been a Carthaginian-Cornwall connection over the tin mines.
Interesting find, to say the least.
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Why all the headline grabbing? Just because the coin is dated 146bce, doesn't mean that's when it arrived in England. it seems like a big leap from a single coin, found by a treasure hunter to a full blown trade relations with an emerging empire.
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Indicates the existence of trading networks between Britain and the continent where the Gauls and Spaniards were definitely in contact with the Romans....not that anyone ever doubted that fact but it is nice to have proof.
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Britain maintained extensive trade relations with the Ireland, mainland Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East from well before the Roman invasion Monk. The Romans seemed to know all about us when they landed. Remember, there had been an attempt at a landing a century before that had been repelled and the evidense of trading, possibly indirect trading, from well before.
Not everybody was opposed to the Romans it seems, but the history was written of course by the Romans, not us.
PALERMO (ANSA) - The face of a late Stone Age woman who lived in Sicily has been reconstructed by a sculptor working with anthropologists at Palermo University.
The skeleton of the woman, who lived 14,000 years ago, was discovered in a cave near Messina in 1937, along with the incomplete skeletons of six other humans, presumably her family.
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