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Kalibangan
Kalibangan

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Where in the world

India

The site

Kalibangan is an Indus Valley Civilization site on the southern bank of the Ghaggar River in Rajasthan, India, identified as a major provincial capital. It is famous for its unique fire altars and for what excavators called the world's earliest attested ploughed field. First recognised by Luigi Tessitori and excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India, it developed into a planned city around 2900 BCE.

Field notes

civilizations
Indus Valley
types
Village
occupied
3,500 BCE — 1,750 BCE
country
India