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ranjitjat
March 19th, 2004, 03:09 AM
Rakhi Garhi excavation points to mature
Harappan civilisatio

Fatehabad, March 18
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which is carrying out excavation at a Harappan site near Bhirdana village in this district has gathered evidence that our predecessors who lived at Bhirdana and nearby Harappan sites of Kunal and Banawali might have shifted to Rakhi Garhi in Hisar district after sometime. The ASI draws its conclusion on the basis of the fact that while Harappan and pre-Harappan townships had been found in the former three sites, the excavations at Rakhi Garhi had suggested the existence of a mature Harappan era township there.

The excavations by the ASI began here on December 14, last year, and the excavators had gathered several clinching evidences of a 5000-year- old Indus Valley Civilisation (Harappan era) here. The ASI has collected several antiquities during the excavations so far which points to the existence of a Harappan era township here. The antiquities include three seals of the Harrapan era bearing the impression of a pottery of that period, ornaments like copper bangles, terracotta beads, carnelian beads, steatite beads, copper rings and several other antiquities like sling ball for scaring away animals and birds from the fields, soak pits for the drainage of water, circular cakes and net sinkers made of clay and children’s toys like humped bull and whistle made of clay.
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Dharmpal