Early South Asia: Communities, Cities, States, and Connected Worlds
Kachi Plain and Bolan approaches · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Mehrgarh and early farming communities

Mehrgarh archaeological context

Architecture, plant and animal remains, craft production, and burial evidence document changing early village communities and regional connections without establishing a single civilizational origin.

Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement context c. 7000-2600 BCE Stratified settlement, architecture, plant and animal remains, ceramics, craft evidence, and burials Mehrgarh archaeological site on the Kachi Plain; a settlement reference point, not a civilizational capital
Resumen

Evidencias, escala comunitaria, organización política y conexiones

Paisajes de ríos, costas, llanuras, mesetas, montañas e islas

The Kachi Plain linked irrigable foothill environments, highland routes, herding zones, and the Indus lowlands.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Households and local communities coordinated farming, herding, craft, construction, and exchange at changing scales; no named state is documented.

Transformación religiosa, imperial y posterior

Mehrgarh is heritage in modern Pakistan; the site cannot establish modern ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, or descent.

Reference point Mehrgarh

A long-lived settlement, not a capital or ethnic boundary.

Reviewed 2026 [S1]
Evidence Settlement, subsistence, craft, and burial archaeology

The sequence contains change and cannot define one people.

c. 7000-2600 BCE [S1] [S2]
Language Unknown

No locally written corpus identifies speech or identity.

Current evidence [S2] [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Early village occupation

    Mud-brick architecture and subsistence remains document early settled communities.

    [S1] [S2]

  2. Farming and herding develop

    Plant and animal evidence records changing local practices rather than one sudden package.

    [S1] [S3]

  3. Craft and exchange expand

    Ceramics, ornaments, and non-local materials reveal wider connections.

    [S2] [S3]

  4. Major occupation sequence changes

    Regional settlement systems developed along different trajectories during the Indus urban period.

    [S1] [S2]
Cultura e idioma

Hogares, subsistencia, trabajo, escritura, lengua, creencias, artesanía y movilidad

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • No locally written language corpus identified

Familia lingüística: Unknown from archaeological evidence

Early cultivation and herding changed over a long sequence.

Craft production included beads and ceramics in later phases.

Burials are evidence about specific contexts, not biological populations.

Monuments, elite donations, inscriptions, royal edicts, seals, coins, and monastic records are unusually visible. Farmers, pastoralists, craftspeople, women, children, forest and mobile communities, enslaved or bonded people, migrants, and most spoken languages appear less evenly and must not be erased by elite archives.

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Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

Prefer South Asian national and regional heritage authorities, archaeological projects working with those authorities, accountable museums, UNESCO records, and peer-reviewed research. Register ancient texts only through academic editions and distinguish composition, transmission, genre, audience, and distance from events. Do not register Wikipedia or add artifact, burial, or human-remains imagery without per-file licensing, attribution, and ethical review.

  1. C1

    Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 1980; current record

  2. C2

    Dholavira: a Harappan City

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 2021; current record

  3. C3

    Harappa Archaeological Research Project

    Harappa Archaeological Research Project · Academic archaeological project · Current project overview

  4. C4

    Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro documentation

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage documentation · Current documentation

  5. C5

    Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 1989; current record

  6. C6

    Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 2016; current record

  7. C7

    Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 1997; current record

  8. C8

    Sacred City of Anuradhapura

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 1982; current record

  9. C9

    Archaeological Excavations conducted by the Department

    Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology · State archaeology record · Current institutional record

  10. C10

    Taxila

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · 1980; current record

  11. S1

    Archaeological Site of Mehrgarh

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage tentative-list record · 2004; current record

  12. S2

    Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Regional heritage context · 1980; current record

  13. S3

    Harappa Archaeological Research Project

    Harappa Archaeological Research Project · Academic archaeological project · Current project overview

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Revisión editorial: 4 agosto 2026

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