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Indus Valley east theory challenged
Indus Valley east theory challenged ^ | April 5, 2010 | G.S. Mudur

Posted on 04/17/2010 6:55:07 PM PDT by rdl6989

A study of hundreds of ancient Indus Valley civilisation sites has revealed previously unsuspected patterns of growth and decline that challenge a long-standing idea of a solely eastward-moving wave of Indus urbanisation.

Researchers at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Chennai, combined data from archaeology, radiocarbon dating, and river flows to study how settlements around the Indus Valley region had evolved from around 7000 BC till 1000 BC.

Their analysis of 1,874 Indus region settlements has shown that the Indus urbanisation had three epicentres — Mehrgarh in present-day Baluchistan, Gujarat, and sites along an ancient river called the Ghaggar-Hakra in Haryana and Punjab.

The findings, published in Current Science, a journal of the Indian Academy of Sciences, dispute suggestions by international researchers that farming and urbanisation in the region was driven by a “wave of advance” moving eastward.

“We’re looking at large-scale patterns of how the Indus civilisation changed over time,” said Ronojoy Adhikari, a theoretical physicist at the IMS, who led a team that analysed geographic movements of Indus region settlements over hundreds of years.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraphindia.com ...


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1 posted on 04/17/2010 6:55:07 PM PDT by rdl6989
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”Image The new analysis of Indus Valley Civilization sites reveals a previously unsuspected east-to-west flow of urbanisation — as shown by these three maps of Indus sites between 4000 BC and 2500 BC. In 4000 BC, the black-coloured dot shows a single site in the Ghaggar-Hakra region, but 300 years later, new settlements have emerged to its immediate west. This westward movement and slow growth contradicts long-standing notions that Indus Valley urbanisation moved solely eastward. New Delhi, April 5: A study of hundreds of ancient Indus Valley civilisation sites has revealed previously unsuspected patterns of growth and decline that challenge a long-standing idea of a solely eastward-moving wave of Indus urbanisation. Researchers at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Chennai, combined data from archaeology, radiocarbon dating, and river flows to study how settlements around the Indus Valley region had evolved from around 7000 BC till 1000 BC. Their analysis of 1,874 Indus region settlements has shown that the Indus urbanisation had three epicentres — Mehrgarh in present-day Baluchistan, Gujarat, and sites along an ancient river called the Ghaggar-Hakra in Haryana and Punjab.
2 posted on 04/17/2010 6:55:52 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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3 posted on 04/17/2010 6:57:27 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


4 posted on 04/17/2010 6:57:41 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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The Indus Valley Civilisation inhabitants invented indoor plumbing.


5 posted on 04/17/2010 6:58:08 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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Not to mention indoor call centers.


6 posted on 04/17/2010 7:04:35 PM PDT by hellbender
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LOL!


7 posted on 04/17/2010 7:04:57 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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nice


8 posted on 04/17/2010 8:30:04 PM PDT by muleskinner ("You know the Germans always make good stuff')
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9 posted on 04/17/2010 9:09:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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LOL.
Call Centers were a western invention that migrated east to escape persecution.


10 posted on 04/18/2010 3:52:47 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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