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HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION

Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab , Pakistan , about 24km west of Sahiwal . The site take its name from a modern village located near the former course of the RAVI river.

HARAPPANCIVILIZATION

Introduction

LOCATION- Sahiwal District , Pakistan

TYPE-Settlement AREA- 150 ha (370acres) CULTURES- Indus Valley

Civilization CONDITION- Ruined OWNERSHIP-Pakistan PUBLIC ACCESS-Yes

The site of the ancient city contains the ruins of a Bronze Age fortified city , which was a part of the Cemetery H culture and the Indus Valley Civilization , centered in Sindh and the Punjab.

HARAPPAN ART AND STATUE

The Harappan artists knew the art of bronze casting. They used special lost wax process in which the wax figures were covered with a coating of clay.

The patterns and crafts tradition was well established during the Indus Valley Civilization.

Objects in stone , bronze and terracotta have been found.

Many terracotta toys , animals and figurines and painted pottery with design of birds, flowers, leaves etc are found.

The Harappan people also made models of animals , specially monkeys and squirrels.

The excavators of the site have proposed the following chronology of Harappa’s occupation:

1.Ravi Aspect of the Hakra phase, c. 3300-2800 BC.

Kot Dijian phase ,c.2800-2600 BC. Harappan phase , c.2600-1900 BC. Transitional phase , c.1900-1800 BC. Late Harappan phase , c.1800-1300

BC.

ARCHAELOGY

ARCHAELOGY

CAUSES OF DECLINE OF HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION-

Law of nature Floods Earthquake Change of the course of the Indus Plague Foreign Invasion

DECLINE OF HARAPPA

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