In Pakistan, a site older than Mohenjodaro [INDUS VALLEY]

The Press Trust of India ^ | 23 Jan 2009, 2320 hrs | The Press Trust of India

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

An archaeological site dating back about 5,500 years and believed to be older than Mohenjodaro has been found in Sindh province.

A team of 22 archaeologists found semi-precious and precious stones and utensils made of clay, copper and other metals during an excavation in Lakhian Jo Daro in Sukkur district on Thursday. “At present, we can say that it is older than Mohenjodaro”, Ghulam Mustafa Shar, the director of the Lakhian Jo Daro project, said.

Shar said the remains of a “faience” or tin-glazed pottery factory had been found at the site. It is believed to be of the era of Italian mirror factories that date back to 9,000 years. The discovery of more such items could establish the site as 9,000 years old, like remains found at Jericho in Palestine, Shar said.

[Perdogg]

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[glide625]

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[Prospero]

Jericho is distinguished by its having been continuously inhabited by multiple civilized cultures, each level distinct. But a site older than Mohenjodaro, in the Indus... that's historic.

Does anyone have a map?

My guess is we'll be reading about this one for a very long time, indeed.

[pappyone]

Now I’ve got to Google “age of Mohenjodaro”. Sheesh.

[Justice]

be of the era of Italian mirror factories that date back to 9,000 years

There were Italian mirror factories 9,000 years ago?

[muawiyah]

There will be more of these ~ roughly along the line of the immediate post Younger Dryas temperate zone forests.

Although plants were being domesticated in that period (9,000 years ago) they were still not highly productive, so any "civilization" continued to have a need to access fruits, nuts and game commonly found in temperate zone diciduous forests.

As an example, the Jomon in Japan appear to have thrown up the early stages of civilization (permanent construction, stone work, roadways, use of ceramics, towns, etc.) without simultaneously developing agriculture. No reason the same process could not have happened elsewhere. Worth noting that Jericho is in one of the regions where agriculture was first developed ~

[muawiyah]

Ancient people developed "factories" ~ yes ~ these are sites where useful/wanted products were manufactured in large number for trade elsewhere.

One interesting American Indian "factory" was unearthed in Southern Indiana when a major casino sought to build it's facility. There were MILLIONS of arrowheads and flint knives found in the site just above the Falls on the Ohio (at Louisville).

The Shawnee Indians had managed to hold the area for several hundred, maybe even thousands of years.

[Justice]

Ancient people developed "factories" ~ yes ~ these are sites where useful/wanted products were manufactured in large number for trade elsewhere

Obviously, but one in Italy 9,000 years ago?

At that point people were barely rooted in Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus.

[muawiyah]

9,000 years ago (7000 BC) people were just then found in sufficient numbers to resettle the Northern Hemisphere.

5,000 years later they'd set up more permanent and resiliant civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus, MesoAmerica, South America, and elsewhere.

You have to remember that we are talking about the people who had survived the Ice Age in Europe, along the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Far East ~ not just those who'd survived the previous Ice Age in Africa.

They undoubtedly learned to build houses, keep themselves warm, and so forth. They had the business of being hunter/gatherers down to a "T", and were expanding their range rapidly.

By this time there were already Pictoglyphs being carved on rock overhangs in Northern Scandinavia, on stone stellae in Mongolia (so-called Bird Stones), and possibly in North America.

[muawiyah]

According to "sources" the term has been extended to ancient stuff from Egypt, Crete, etc.

It's not like “faience” is rocket science!

[SunkenCiv]

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