Over 1400 Indus Valley Civilization sites have been discovered, of which 925 sites are in India and 475 sites in Pakistan, while some sites in Afghanistan are believed to be trading colonies.Henri-Paul Francfort, Fouilles de Shortughai, Recherches sur L'Asie Centrale Protohistorique, Paris, pl. 75, no. 7 Only 40 sites on the Indus valley were discovered in pre-Partition erahttps://books.google.co.in/books?id=bMg-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA12&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=40&f=false by archaeologists in British India, around 1,100 (80%) sites are located on the plains between rivers Ganges and Indus.
The oldest site of Indus Valley Civilization, Bhirrana and the largest site Rakhigarhi are located in Indian state of Haryana.
More than 90% of the inscribed objects and seals are discovered were found at ancient urban centres along the Indus river in Pakistan, mainly Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.Iravatham Mahadevan, 1977, The Indus Script: Text, Concordance and Tables, pp.
6-7Upinder Singh, 2008, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, p. 169 More than 50 IVC burial sites have been found, main sites among those are Rakhigarhi (first site with genetic testing), Sanauli, Farmana, Kalibangan, Lothal, Dholavira, Mehrgarh, Harappa, Chanhudaro and Mohenjo-daro.Astha Dibyopama, Yong Jun Kim, Chang Seok Oh, Dong Hoon Shin , Vasant Shinde, 2015,, Korean Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp.
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List of Indus Valley sites discovered
This is a List of Indus Valley Civilization discoveries.
Context of IVC sites and cultures
Wider context of the IVC includes the following:
Meluhha
Indus–Mesopotamia relations
Conflict with the Akkadians and Neo-Sumerians
List of inventions and discoveries of the Indus Valley Civilization
Hydraulic engineering of the Indus Valley Civilization
Sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation
Periodisation of the Indus Valley Civilisation
Pottery in the Indian subcontinent
Bara culture, subtype of Late-Harappan Phase
Cemetery H culture (2000-1400 BC), early Indo-Aryan pottery at IVC sites later evolved into Painted Grey Ware culture of Vedic period
Black and red ware, belonging to neolithic and Early-Harappan phases
Sothi-Siswal culture, subtype of Early-Harappan Phase
See also
Timeline of Indian history
List of archaeological sites by country
List of archaeological sites by continent and age
World Heritage Sites by country
References
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