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  • Essay / Explore life in Mehrgarh and its importance as one of the...

    This article explores life in Mehrgarh and its importance as one of the major cities of the valley civilization 'Indus. Mehrgarh represents a long chronological sequence from the 7th millennium to the 3rd millennium BC which has been divided into seven main periods from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The third period belongs to agricultural society (agriculture and livestock). For decades, archaeologists believed that plants and animals were first domesticated in the Near East (Israel, Lebanon, Syria, southwest Turkey, Iraq, western Iran) in the early the Holocene (8,000 to 10,000 years ago). It is now possible to challenge this archaeological dogma on the domestication of plants and animals, as evidenced by discoveries in Afghanistan and at Mehrgarh, in the Kachi plains of Pakistan. The roots of the settled and agricultural village community were documented in the 7th millennium BC, at the site of Mehrgarh, in the Kachi plains of the central Indus Valley. Agriculture was successful here as the Pleistocene Indus River is believed to have flowed through this region....