Major Harappan Sites and their Excavators Part-1

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As the Exam will start soon and the focus of the student not only be on Math and Reasoning but also on General Knowledge. This post is exclusively for all the aspirants who are preparing for Railway's and SSC. This  notes were based on ancient history and we highlighted all the important things from Exam point of view. So friends, read the below topics this will definitely help you. We will post this notes of different subject on daily basis, so please keep reading...

Name of site- Harappa
Year of Excavation-1921
Excavator -Daya Ram Sahni 
Montgomery district of Punjab (Now in Pakistan) on the left bank of Ravi river
•City followed grid planning. 
•Two rows of six granaries. 
•Dancing Natraja (stone) 
•Only place having evidences of coffin burial. 
•no. of Cemetery H and cemetery R - 37.  




Name of site -Mohenjo-Daro
Year of Excavation -1922
Excavator -RD Banerjee
Larkana district in Sindh on the right bank of Indus (Now in Pakistan) 
•City followed grid planning. 
•A large granary, great bath and a collage.
•Human skeletons showing invasion and massacre. 
•Evidence of horse comes iron superficial level. 
•A piece of woven cotton along with spindle whorls and needles. 
•A bearded man in steatite and a bronze dancing girl are found. 
•Town was flooded more than seven times. 
•A seal representing Mother Goddess with a plant growing from her wombe and a woman to be sacrificed by a man with a knife. 



Name of site -Sutkagendor
Year of Excavation -1927
Excavator -RL. Stein
Situated in Baluchistan on Dask river
•Trade point between Harappa and Babylon, to mature phase. 
•Citadel was fortified, Evidence of horse 




Name of site -Chanhudaro
Year of Excavation -1931
Excavator -N Gopal Majumdar, Mackey
Situated in Sindh on the bank of left Indus
•The city has no citadel.
•Famous for bead makers shop. 
•A small pot, possibly an inkpot. 
•Foot prints of a dog chasing a cat. 
•Evidence of copper or bronze tools of carts with seated drivers. 
•Three different cultural layers-Indus, Jhukar and Jhangar.  

Name of site -Amri
Year of Excavation -1935
Excavator -NG Majumdar
Situated in Sindh on the bank of Indus
•Evidence of antelope. 





Name of site -Kalibangan
Year of Excavation -1953
Excavator -A Ghosh
Situated in Rajasthan on the left bank of Ghaggar
•Shows both Pre-Harappan and Harappan phase. 
•Evidence of Furrowed land. 
•Evidence of seven fire altars and camel bones. 
•Many houses had their own well.
•Kalibangan stands for black bangles. 
•Evidence of wooden furrow. 
•Evidence of two types of burials (i) Burials in a rectangular grave and (ii) Burials in a circular grave. 



Name of site -Kot Diji
Year of Excavation -1953
Excavator -Razal Ahmed
Situated on the left bank of Indus
•Wheel made painted pottery. 
•Trace of a defensive wall and well aligned streets. 
•Knowledge of metallurgy, artistic toys etc. 
•Five figurines of mother Goddess discovered. 





Name of site -Rangpur
Year of Excavation -1953
Excavator -MS Vats, BB Lal and SR Rao
Situated on the left bank of Mahar river (Gujarat)
•Rice was cultivated 






Name of site -Ropar
Year of Excavation -1953
Excavator -YD Sharma
Situated in Punjab on the banks of Sutlej
•Evidence of burying a dog below the human burial. 
•One example of rectangular mud rick chamber was noticed. 
•Fivefold culture–Harappan, PGW, NBP, Kushana-Gupta and Medieval.