How A Graveyard Led To The Discovery Of A 5,200-Year-Old Harappan Settlement In Gujarat indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A necropolis with over 500 graves in Gujarat's Kutch, first unearthed in 2018, has led a team of archaeologists to a fascinating discovery - a Harappan-era settlement going back more than 5,000 years ago.
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The presence of the skeleton, along with pottery artefacts and animal bones, that the team of archaeologists excavated from a hillock, locally called Padta Bet, point to the presence of a 5,200-year-old Harappan settlement that was 1.5 km from the mass burial ground of Juna Khatiya, an Early Harappan necropolis.