Harappa
It is the type site of the Indus civilisation.
A type site in archaeology is a particular place or settlement that defines the culture and/or other characteristics identified with the civilisation.
Ganeriwala
It is considered to have been one of the major cities of the Indus civilisation.
Located in the Cholistan Desert in Pakistan’s Punjab, it is today threatened by land-use conversion in the surrounding areas.
Excavation of Mohenjo-daro
Three officers of the Archaeological Survey of India — R.D. Banerji, D.R. Bhandarkar, and M.S. Vats — are credited with discovering the importance of Mohenjo-daro to the Indus civilisation and its antiquity.
Mehrgarh
The early years of the Indus civilisation overlapped with the late periods of a neolithic settlement centred on Mehrgarh, today lying in Balochistan.
A farming village here has been dated to 5000 BC to 3500 BC.
Artisanship
The Dancing Girl bronze statue unearthed at Mohenjo-daro that revealed two facts about the civilisation: that its artists knew how to blend and cast metals and make statues, and that the civilisation’s culture included dancing as an art form.
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