Bricks, beads & bones

The most distinctive artifact of the Harappan civilization.

Its seal, it was stamped

• Made of stone, steatite

• contained animal motifs and undecipherable script

Archaeological evidence

• Houses/Bricks

• Pots

• Ornaments

• Tools

• Seals

• Weights

• Copper/bronze articles

Why was the Indus Valley civilization also named the Harappan civilization?

As the civilization was first identified at a place called Harappa

Total time-span

6000 BCE - 1300 BCE

• Early Harappan: 6000 BCE - 2600 BCE

  • Formative phase

• Mature Harappan: 2600 BCE - 1900 BCE

  • Urban, most prosperous phase

• Late Harappan: 1900 BCE - 1300 BCE

  • Decline of the civilization

Regions where artifacts were found

• Afganistan

• Baluchistan(Historical place currently divided into 3 parts by Iran, Afganistan & Pakistan)

• Sindh(His. place, in Pakistan)

• Punjab region of Pakistan

• Jammu & Kashmir

• Punjab

• Haryana

• Rajasthan

• Uttar Pradesh

• Gujarat

• Maharashtra

Harappan Culture

The term “culture“ in archaeology is used for:

• A group of objects

• Distinctive in style

• Are usually found together

• within a specific geographic area & time period