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Mehrgarh Culture
Mehrgarh is the oldest agricultural settlement in the Indian subcontinent
Agriculture-based Neolithic settlements. Despite being the agriculture
settlement, it used only stone tools, so is why placed in Neolithic Era. It
flourished in the seventh millennium B.C.
Mehrgarh is located on the Bolan River, a tributary of the Indus, at the
eastern edge of the Baluchistan plateau overlooking the Indus plain. The
Mehrgarh culture has been divided into 8 sub periods and following are
important features of these sub-periods:
First Period
painted in reddish and black color with simple straight and curved
lines, rows of dots and crisscrosses.
Sickles made of stone bladelets, set obliquely in wood handles
with bitumen as the adhesive material, may have been used for
harvesting.
Metal technology started , evident from the discovery of a
copper ring and a bead .
Terracotta human figurines and bangles also appear.
Third Period