Indus Valley Civilization

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1. INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
2. Historical Three Phase system  STONE AGE  BRONZE AGE  IRON AGE
3. STONE AGE DIVISION  OLD STONE AGE  MIDDLE STONE AGE  NEW STONE AGE  CHALCOLITHIC AGE
4. BRONZE AGE  Bronze Tools  Some form of Proto Writing
5. OLD WORLD
6. INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION  PRE HARAPPAN (7500 BCE)  MAIN SPAN ( 3300-1300 BCE)  MATURE PERIOD (2600-1900 BCE)  Spans across – Ghaggar – Hakra river  Indus, Saraswati also.
8. Ballast for Railway!  1856 Brahminabad city was reduced into Ballast
9. Discovery  Alexander Cunningham first talked about Harappan culture  Subsequent visits by British Archeologists revealed a greater network of sites
10. EVOLUTION Early food producing era Sedenting Integration & Trade
11. They developed  Carnelian Products  Seal Carvings ( Found in Mesapotomia)  Metallurgy
12. CITIES AND URBAN LIFE  Sophistication at heart.  Urban planning , Baked bricks, Drainages, Water supply  Packed Public buildings  90 deg roads  The Famous Great Bath  Waste disposal mechanisms  Bathrooms, Dockyards, Graneries, Protective Walls
14. TRADE & TECH  Standard Measurments  Kautilya had same units of LOTHAL’S IVC  Proto DENTISTRY  Testing Gold  Trading with seals  DNA of people from Crete, Egypt found
15. Script and Art  Indus VC had a script and we cant understand that  Lots and Lots of art idols.
16. COLLAPSE  A Sudden collapse in a century.  Theoritized of it as abandoning due to floods.  From 1800-1700 BCE they abandoned  Raise the VEDIC PERIOD!
17. INDIAN PANTHER RADHA KRISHNA : about.me/rkavuluru