Kalibangan
The town of 'black bangles' on the dry Ghaggar, with the oldest ploughed field ever excavated and rows of fire altars.
Kalibangan, on the left bank of the dried Ghaggar, takes its name from the black bangle fragments that litter its mounds. It was excavated by B. B. Lal and B. K. Thapar from 1960.
Beneath the Harappan town lay a pre-Harappan field with criss-cross furrows, the oldest ploughed field known anywhere. In the Harappan citadel were rows of clay-lined fire altars.
The town seems to have been abandoned when the Ghaggar dried.
More from the Indus
The type site of the civilisation, on an old course of the Ravi: 150 hectares and perhaps 23,500 people at its height.
The largest and best-preserved Indus city, 'the mound of the dead', with the Great Bath and some seven hundred wells.
Perhaps the largest Indus city, on the old Drishadvati plain east of the Punjab, whose skeletons gave the first Indus DNA.
The Indus city of the salt desert, with rock-cut reservoirs and a signboard of ten giant signs.
A small port town near the Gulf of Khambhat with a great brick basin, a bead factory and an ivory scale.
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Where farming began on the edge of the Indus plain, the deep root of the cities.