Harappa
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An excavation of a large well and bathing platforms at Harappa (archaeological site), occupied around 2200–1900 BCE
Etymology
Proper noun
Harappa
- A village in Punjab, eastern Pakistan.
- An archaeological site near the village; the ancient city excavated at the site.
- 1995, Karl J. Schmidt, An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History, page 12:
- The site, known as Harappa, contained evidence of a culture over 1,000 years older than any other yet discovered in South Asia and one which dated back to c. 2350 BCE, making it one of the four oldest centers of civilization in the world.
- 1996, Elizabeth E. Broadrup, "Kot Diji (Sind, Pakistan)," article in Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda (editors), International Dictionary of Historic Places, Volume 5: Asia and Oceania, page 489,
- Now considered the first urban culture of the Indian subcontinent, the Harappan civilization was unknown to scholars until the twentieth century. Intrigued by large, earth-covered mounds at Harappa, on the Ravi River in the Punjab province of present-day Pakistan, archaeologists began excavating the site in 1921.
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- (attributive use) The Harappan Civilization, or Indus Valley Civilization, a Bronze Age civilization that flourished in a large region encompassing the site.
- 1989, Amalananda Ghosh (editor), "Rangpur," entry in An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, page 370,
- He declared that it was a site of the late period of Harappa culture [4.9] on the basis of certain pottery types and painted designs thereon and that 'the mere fact that the Indus culture is by this discovery pushed so far s.-e. as Kathiawar is a matter of great importance'.
- 1989, Amalananda Ghosh (editor), "Rangpur," entry in An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, page 370,
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