Year

Site

Location

Excavated by

Major findings

1921

Harappa

Sahiwal District, Punjab in the banks of Ravi

Daya Ram Sahni

  • Piece of Pottery with Indus Script

  • Cubical Limestone Weight

  • Faience Slag

  • Sandstone statues of Human anatomy

  • Copper Bullock cart

  • Granaries

  • Coffin burials (Only founded in Harrapa)

  • Terracotta Figurines

1922

Mohenjo-Daro

Larkana District Of Sind on the bank of Indus

R. D Banerjee

  • Great bath

  • Granary

  • Unicorn Seals (Most numbers of it in here)

  • Bronze dancing girl statue

  • Seal of a man with deers, elephants, tiger and rhinos around- Considered to be Pashupati Seal)

  • Steatite statue of beard man

  • Bronze buffalo

1929

Sutkagendor

Baluchistan on Dast river

Stein

  • Trade point between Harappa and Babylon

  • Flint Blades

  • Stone Vessels

  • Stone Arrowheads

  • Shell Beads

  • Pottery

  • Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) associated Copper-Bronze Disc

1931

Chanhudaro

Mullan Sandha, Sind on the Indus river

N G Majumdar

  • Bangle Factory

  • InkPot

  • Bead makers shop

  • The footprint of a dog chasing a cat

  • Cart with a seated driver

Note: It is the only city without a citadel

1935

Amri

Close to Balochistan, on the bank of Indus river

N G Majumdar

  • Antelope evidence

  • Rhinoceros’ evidence

1953

Kalibangan

Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan on the bank of Ghaggar river

Amlanand Ghose

  • Lower fortified town

  • Wooden drainage

  • Copper Ox

  • Evidence of earthquake

  • Wooden plough

  • Camel’s bone

  • Fire alters

  • Camel’s bones

  • Furrowed land

1953

Lothal

Gujarat on Bhogva river near the Gulf of

Cambay

R. Rao

  • Port Town

  • Graveyard

  • Ivory weight balance

  • Copper dog

  • First manmade port

  • Dockyard

  • Rice husk

  • Fire alters

  • Chess-playing

1964

Surkotada

Gujarat

J P Joshi

  • Bones of horses

  • Beads

  • Stone Covered Beads

1974

Banawali

Fatehabad district of Haryana

R S Bisht

  • Beads

  • Barley

  • Oval shaped settlement

  • The only city with radial streets

  • Toy plough

  • The largest number of barley grains

1985

Dholavira

Gujarat in Rann of Kutchchh

R S Bisht

  • Exclusive water management

  • Only site to be divided into three parts

  • Giant water reservoir

  • Unique water harnessing system

  • Dams

  • Embankments

  • Stadium

  • Rock – Cut architecture







Sites in Punjab


1. Rupnagar- On the bank of Satluj
1952-53- Excavated by Y. D. Sharma (earthenware, seals, beads, bangles, etc.)


2. Kotla- Nihang Khan (District Rupnagar)- Discovered in 1929; discovered by M.S. Vats in 1921.


3. Dher Majra (District Rupnagar)


4. Bara (District Rupnagar)


5. Rohira (Tehsil Ahmadgarh, District Sangrur)-
•    Revealed that the houses were spacious and made up of bricks in the ratio of 1:2:4
•    A large number of beads of steatite terracotta, bangle pieces of terracotta, and bone styli were discovered


6. Sanghol (District Fatehgarh Sahib)-
•    Terracotta figures found
•    Pottery and a variety of copper objects found


7. Sunet (District Ludhiana)-
Seals, coins, coin molds, and human and animal figurines in terracotta found

8. Dhogri and Madhopur – Both in Jalandhar district.


9. Rakhigarhi (District Jind)


10. Mudiala Kalan – It is G.T. road in district Ludhiana.


11. Raja Sirkap – It is in district Faridkot.


12. Daulatpar – It is 15 km East of Thanesar.


13. Mithathal – It is in the Bhiwani district.   


14. Chandigarh – The pottery-related culture was excavated in Chandigarh.


15. Dhalbaha – It is in district Hoshiarpur.

More Information-
Period- 2500 BC- 1750 BC

Bronze age-

  • 1921- Daya ram Sahni excavated Proto- historic sites at Harappan in Montgomery district in West Bengal (Pakistan)
  • 1922- R. D Banerjee discovered a site at Mohenjodaro in Larkana district in Sindhu (Pakistan)





Archaeological Site
Site                                            location
  1.  Bhatinda Fort                 Bathinda
  2. Baras                               Fatehgarh Sahib
  3. Dadheri                            Ludhiana
  4. Ghuram                            Patiala
  5. Kathpalon                        Jalandhar
  6. Nagar                               Jalandhar
  7. Nagiari                             Ropar
  8. Rohira                              Sangrur
  9. Bara                                  Ropar
  10. Sanghol                            Fatehgarh Sahib
  11. Sunet                                Ludhiana
  12. Kotla Nihang Khan         Ropar
  13. Ropar                               Ropar