Indus Valley Site being used to decompose cowdung?

["Sam Garg" <gargsam@hotmail.com>]

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I'm not sure how much of this report can be trusted since there is a 
fundamental mistake in it.  Instead of Bihar, it should read Haryana. The 
site of Bhagwanpura is well known because it is dated to around 1350 BCE - 
i.e., a Harappan site when the Aryans were supposed to be present there. 
Incidently, Harappan and PGW artifacts are found at same stratigraphic 
levels AND contexts at this site and the findings are used to postulate a 
continuity between classical Harappan and post Harappan cultures.

IVC sites in general are in abysmal condition and this is not recent.  The 
British used 5000 yr old IVC bricks for building railroads in India.


Sanjay Garg



>From: prabhu.guptara@ubs.com
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>To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>Subject: Indus Valley Site being used to decompose cowdung?
>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:21:36 -0700 (PDT)
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>Does any of our participants know if the following report is true?  or
>is there
>any light anyone can throw on it?
>
>I send this item in at this moment because I have only just received the
>
>newsletter....
>
>prabhu guptara
>
>
>"The Indus Valley site of Bhagwanpura, Bihar, one of the most important
>sites
>of the Indus Valley Civilisation, is lying buried under heaps of
>cowdung, and
>is being used as a site for manure decomposition.  A recent visit to the
>site
>by a team of historians and archaeologists brought into focus the
>pathetic
>condition of the site", Motilal Banarsidas Newsletter, January 2001,
>page 9
>
>
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