List of Indus Valley Civilisation sites

As of 2008, more than 1000 Indus Valley Civilisation sites have been discovered.^[1]

List of modern Sites

This is a List of Indus Civilisation sites.

Site	District	Province/State	Country	Image	Excavations/Findings
Alamgirpur	Meerut District	Uttar Pradesh	India		Impression of cloth on trough
Babar Kot	Saurashtra	Gujarat	India		A stone fortification wall,[2] plant remains of millets & gram.[2] bajra(pennisetum typhoideum)etc.[3]
Balu, Haryana	Fatehabad	Haryana	India		Earliest evidence of garlic.[4]
Banawali	Hisar District	Haryana	India		Barley, terracotta figure of plough
Bargaon	Saharanpur District[5]	Uttar Pradesh	India
Baror	Sri Ganganagar district	Rajasthan	India		human skeleton, ornaments, 5 meter long and 3 meter clay oven, a pitcher filled with 8000 pearls [6]
Bet Dwarka	Devbhoomi Dwarka district	Gujarat	India		Late Harappan seal, inscribed jar, the mould of coppersmith, a copper fishhook[7][8]
Bhagatrav	Bharuch District	Gujarat	India
Bhirrana	Fatehabad District	Haryana	India		Graffiti of a dancing girl on pottery, which resembles dancing girl statue found at Mohenjo-daro
Chanhudaro	Nawabshah District	Sindh	Pakistan		Bead making factory, use of lipstick,[9] only Indus site without a citadel
Daimabad Late Harappan	Ahmadnagar District	Maharashtra	India		A sculpture of a bronze chariot, 45 cm long and 16 cm wide, yoked to two oxen, driven by a man 16 cm high standing in it; and three other bronze sculptures.[10] Southern-most IVC site
Desalpur in Nakhtrana Taluka,	Kutch District	Gujarat	India		Massive stone fortification, Harappan pottery, two script bearing seals, one of steatite and other of copper were also found; one script bearing terrecotta sealings was also found.[11]
Dholavira	Kutch District	Gujarat	India		Figure of chariot tied to a pair of bullocks and driven by a nude human, Water harvesting and number of reservoirs, use of rocks for constructions
Farmana	Rohtak District	Haryana	India		Largest burial site of IVC, with 65 burials, found in India
Ganeriwala		Punjab	Pakistan		Equidistant from both Harappa and Mohenjodaro, it is near a dry bed of the former Ghaggar or Saraswati River. It is site of almost the same size of Mahenjodaro. It may have been the third major centre in the IVC as it is near to the copper rich mines in Rajasthan.
Gola Dhoro near Bagasara	Amreli district	Gujarat	India		Production of shell bangles, semi precious beads etc.
Harappa	Sahiwal District	Punjab	Pakistan		Granaries, coffin burial, Lot of artefacts, Important IVC Town, First town which is Excavated and studied in detail
Hisar mound inside Firoz Shah Palace	Hisar District	Haryana	India		Unexcavated site
Hulas	Saharanpur District	Uttar Pradesh	India
Jognakhera	Kurukshetra	Haryana	India		Copper smelting furnaces with copper slag and pot shards[12]
Kalibangan	Hanumangarh District	Rajasthan	India		Baked/burnt bangles, fire altars, small circular pits containing large urns and accompanied by pottery
Kanwari	Hisar district	Haryana	India	Indus Valley Civilization Mound on the left	Pottery, unexcavated and severely endangered site, available for excavation by contacting villagers
Karanpura near Bhadra city	Hanumangarh district	Rajasthan	India		skeleton of child, terracota like pottery, bangles, seals similar to other Harppan sites [13]
Khirasara	saurashtra	Gujarat	India		Ware House, Industrial area, gold, copper, semi precious stone, shell objects and weight hoards
Kerala-no-dhoro or Padri	saurashtra	Gujarat	India		Salt production centre, by evaporating sea water[14]
Kot Bala	Lasbela District	Balochistan	Pakistan		Earliest evidence of furnace, seaport
Kot Diji	Khairpur District	Sindh	Pakistan
Kunal, Haryana	Fatehabad District	Haryana	India		Earliest Pre-Harappan site, Copper smelting.[15]
Kuntasi	Rajkot District	Gujarat	India		Small port
Lakhueen-jo-daro	Sukkur District	Sindh	Pakistan
Larkana	Larkana District	Sindh	Pakistan
Loteshwar	Mehsana District	Gujarat	India		Ancient archaeological site[16]
Lothal	Ahmedabad District	Gujarat	India		Bead making factory, dockyard, button seal, fire altars, painted jar, earliest cultivation of rice (1800 BC)
Manda,Jammu	Jammu District	Jammu & Kashmir	India		Northern Most Harappan site in Himalayan foodhills[17]
Malwan	Surat District	Gujarat	India		Southern Most Harappan site in India[18]
Mandi	Muzaffarnagar district	Uttar Pradesh	India
Mehrgarh	Kachi District	Balochistan	Pakistan		Earliest agricultural community
Mitathal	Bhiwani District	Haryana	India
Mohenjo-Daro	Larkana District	Sindh	Pakistan		Great Bath (the biggest bath ghat), Great granary, Bronze dancing girl, Bearded man, terracotta toys, Bull seal, Pashupati seal, three cylindrical seals of the Mesopotamian type, a piece of woven cloth
Mundigak	Kandahar Province	Kandahar	Afghanistan
Nausharo near Dadhar	Kachi District	Balochistan	Pakistan
Ongar	Hyderabad	Sindh	Pakistan
Pabumath	Kutch District	Gujarat	India		A large building complex, unicorn seal, shell bangles, beads, copper bangles, needles, antimony rods,steatite micro beads; pottery include large and medium size jars, beaker, dishes, dish-on-stand, perforated jars etc.; fine red pottery with black painted designs etc.[19]
Pir Shah Jurio	Karachi	Sindh	Pakistan
Pirak	Sibi	Balochistan	Pakistan
Rakhigarhi	Hisar District	Haryana	India		Terrecotta wheels, toys,figuries,pottery. Large site, partially excavated.
Rangpur	Ahmedabad District	Gujarat	India		Seaport
Rehman Dheri	Dera Ismail Khan	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Pakistan
Rojdi	Rajkot District	Gujarat	India
Rupar	Rupnagar District	Punjab	India
Sanauli[20]	Baghpat District	Uttar Pradesh	India		Burial site with 125 burials found
Sheri Khan Tarakai	Bannu District	Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa	Pakistan		pottery, lithic artifact
Shikarpur, Gujarat[21]	Kutch District	Gujarat	India		Food habit details of Harappans
Shahr-i-Sokhta	Sistan Basin	Helmand River Arghandab Kandahar Sarasvati	Afghanistan
Shortugai		Takhar Province	Afghanistan
Siswal	Hisar (district)	Haryana	India
Sokhta Koh	Makran	Balochistan	Pakistan		Pottery
Sothi near Baraut	Bagpat district	Uttar Pradesh	India
Surkotada	Kutch District	Gujarat	India		Bones of a horse (only site)
Sutkagan Dor	Makran	Balochistan	Pakistan		Bangles of clay, Western most known site of IVC[22]
Vejalka	Botad district	Gujarat	India		pottery

References

1. McIntosh 2008, p. 39.
2. Singh, Upinder (2008). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India : from the Stone Age to the 12th century. New Delhi: Pearson Education. p. 222. ISBN 9788131711200.
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4. Singh, Upinder (2008). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India : from the Stone Age to the 12th century. New Delhi: Pearson Education. pp. 137, 157. ISBN 9788131711200.
5. Archaeological Survey of India Publication:Indian Archaeology 1963-64 A Review
6. "Baror near Ramsinghpur". Rajasthan patrika newspaper. 19 June 2006.
7. Rao, S. R.; Gaur, A. S. (July 1992). "Excavations at Bet Dwarka" (PDF). Marine Archaeology (Marine Archaeological Centre, Goa) 3: 42–. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
8. Gaur, A. S. (25 February 2004). "A unique Late Bronze Age copper fish-hook from Bet Dwarka Island, Gujarat, west coast of India: Evidence on the advance fishing technology in ancient India" (PDF). Current Science (IISc) 86 (4): 512–514. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
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11. Ghosh, A., ed. (1967). "Explorations and excavations: Gujarat: 19. Excavation at Desalpur (Gunthli), District Kutch" (PDF). Indian Archaeology 1963-64, A Review. Indian Archaeology (1963-64): 10–12. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
12. Sabharwal, Vijay (2010-07-11). "Indus Valley site ravaged by floods". The Times Of India.
13. "seals found at Karanpura". dainik bhaskar Hindi newspaper.
14. McIntosh 2008, p. 221.
15. McIntosh 2008, p. 68,80,82,105,113.
16. McIntosh 2008, p. 62,74,412.
17. India Archaeology 1976-77, A Review. Archaeological Survey of India.Page 19.
18. Singh, Upinder (2008). A history of ancient and early medieval India : from the Stone Age to the 12th century. New Delhi: Pearson Education. p. 137. ISBN 9788131711200.
19. Mittra, Debala, ed. (1983). "Indian Archaeology 1980-81 A Review" (PDF). Indian Archaeology 1980-81 a Review (Calcutta: Government of India, Archaeological Survey of India): 14.
20. Archaeological Survey of India
21. Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Maharaja Sayyajirao University, Baroda. Excavations at Shikarpur,Gujarat 2008-2009.
22. Possehl, Gregory L. (2003). The Indus Civilization : A Contemporary perspective ([3rd printing]. ed.). New Delhi: Vistaar Publications. pp. 79–80. ISBN 8178292912.

Bibliography

• McIntosh, Jane R. (2008). The Ancient Indus Valley : New Perspectives. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781576079072.