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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
概览

Evidence, community scale, political organization, and connections

River, coast, plain, plateau, mountain, and island landscapes

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

Political organization and community scale

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

Religious, imperial, and later transformation

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]
历史序列

简洁、来源化的时间表

这些里程碑是指向点,而不是完整的历史.

  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]
文化和语言

Households, subsistence, labor, writing, language, belief, craft, and mobility

本简介中命名的语言

  • No locally written language corpus identified

语言家庭: 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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  11. S1

    Archaeological Site of Mehrgarh

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

  12. S2

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  13. S3

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