![]() ![]() Prior theories held that the collapse of the Harappan civilization coincided with similar collapses among the Akkadians in Mesopotamia, the Minoans in Crete, and a civilization in the Yangtze valley due to “either weakening of monsoon or pan-Asian aridification (drought events) at. It has always been a big mystery as to why such a widespread civilization suddenly collapsed, as it appears to have done in the second millennium BCE. The findings from Bhirrana are interesting and shed light on one of archaeology’s enduring questions. The paper focuses on one of these sites, Bhirrana, in today’s Haryana, India. “More than 500 sites of Harappan settlements have been discovered in this belt during the last hundred years,” according to the paper. These include Balochistan, Helmand in Afghanistan, and in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh in India.Īccording to the paper in Nature, many of these early Harappan sites flourished on the Ghaggar-Hakra (mythical Saraswati) River, which flowed from the Himalayas through what is today the Thar Desert of Rajasthan in India into the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat these areas contain low populations today. Harappan sites were not only dated to thousands of years before the initial third millennium finds, but were found in widely dispersed locations. However, it is now established that the initial the original discoveries were merely the tip of an iceberg. It is now believed to have been a lot larger than previously assumed, as archaeologists initially believed that both the most important and largest of the Harappan sites dated from the third millennium BCE and were located on the Indus river and its tributaries in modern Pakistan. The civilization, which arose in the Indus-Ghaggar-Hakra river system (the Ghaggar and Hakra rivers are now defunct), spread out over a large area of modern Pakistan, eastern Afghanistan, and northwestern India. ![]() A new paper published in the journal Nature on May 25 has firmly established that the antiquity of the Harappan or Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) and its predecessors goes back almost 8,000 years, with some signs of settlement dating back to over 9,500 years before the present. ![]()
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