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Describe the site of mehrgarh

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  • One of the earliest sites found in the Indian subcontinent is at Mehrgarh.
  • The village had rectangular houses made of mud and mud bricks.Each house had several rooms.Some of rooms were used for storing grains.
  • Farming was well developed in Mehrgarh.The people of Mehrgarh grew wheat,barley and cotton,and kept cattle ,sheep,goats and buffaloes.
  • At Mehrgarh Microliths and bone tools have been found.
  • People at Mehrgarh learnt to make pottery on the potter's wheel .They also painted designs on some of their pots.
  • At mehrgarh the dead were buried in pits,sometimes with domestic animals.
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Mehrgarh sometimes anglicized as Mehergarh or Mehrgar, is a Neolithic (7000 BCE to c. 2500/2000 BCE) site located near the Bolan Pass on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan, Pakistan, to the west of the Indus River valley.The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh, in the northeast corner of the 495-acre (2.00 km2) site, was a small farming village which was inhabited from circa 6500 BCE. It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia.The site was discovered in 1974 by an archaeological team led by French archaeologists Jean-François Jarrige and Catherine Jarrige, and was excavated continuously between 1974 and 1986, and again from 1997 to 2000. Archaeological material has been found in six mounds, and about 32,000 artifacts have been collected.

Mehrgarh is now seen as a precursor to the Indus Valley Civilization, displaying the whole sequence from earliest settlement and the start of agriculture, to the mature Harappan Civilisation.

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