Dholavira is unique among the sites of this culture for the appearance of polished stone pillars and a large stone outer wall with a dressed stone façade and the earliest pottery remains for this culture are found in Level IIA at Mehrgarh.
Dholavira is unique among the sites of this culture for the appearance of polished stone pillars and a large stone outer wall with a dressed stone façade and the earliest pottery remains for this culture are found in Level IIA at Mehrgarh. The cultivation of common millet and the use of canal irrigation have been evidenced at this culture's northernmost outpost at Shortugai, and irrigation may also have been the reason for the large basin found at this culture's site of Lothal, though this has more commonly been identified as a dock. Eight small (*) bathrooms complete with drainage systems are found to the north of a large water-tight basin known as the "Great Bath" in one of this civilization's most famous cities, a site which had been excavated by R.D. Banerji and Mortimer Wheeler. Another major city for this culture is found on the banks of the Ravi river and was the first to be excavated, Harappa. Also noted for the city of Mohenjo-Daro, this is, FTP, what early South Asian culture named for a river in Pakistan?
Dholavira is unique among the sites of this culture for the appearance of polished stone pillars and a large stone outer wall with a dressed stone façade and the earliest pottery remains for this culture are found in Level IIA at Mehrgarh.
{Indus Valley} Civilization [or {Indus Ghaggar-Hakra} Civilization or {Indus-Sarasvati} Civilization; accept “{Harappa}n Civilization” before Harappa is mentioned; prompt on “IVC”]