How the 2008 Alamgirpur re-excavation challenged timeline of mighty Harappan civilisation 

Refreshing offshoot of archaelogical journalism, and kudos for bringing in actual archaeologists ! Hadn't known so well about Alamgirpur, thanks very much !

Dates for the Harappan Civilization are being constantly pushed back with more research yielding new facets, so pushing back the dates for Ganga-Yamuna Doab should be expected too. Interesting that the contact was not Late Harappan but during the Mature Phase itself. Looking forward to more such contacts being established in Central India and even the South. After all, the Harappan traders were procuring resources from as far north as Shortugai! Nice presentation, Disha.

Fantastic science/archaeological journalism. The Print is doing great service to India putting out a team of brilliant young minds like Ms Ahaluwalia.

let's hope one day archaeologists find the key to understanding the harappan script. nice information, thank you Disha

Hello Disha Mam. You are my proud senior from FAPS. Very happy to see you. Your passion for archaeology is inspiring! Looking forward to more good work. -Raja Singh

I remember visiting Alamgirpur as a child and the brouhaha around it in 2008. ❤.

This site is a mere 180 km east of one of the largest sites Harappan period site of Rakhigarhi. We easily know of far distance contact between Harappans in Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Rajasthan. Exchange networks with Alamgirpur is a true possibility. The problem is the tendency to see one core. There have always been multiple cores of influence in any political system. Indus Valley civilization existed in the City State era, so definitely there can be multiple cores.

Why is the editor placing random images mid-speech? only put relevant pictures. Other pictures are very misguiding.

Interesting stuff, will definitely learn more about Harappan civilization as it always fadcinates how well planned those cities were and they were also involved in International trade!

Maps & timelines would definitely help to explain these finer aspects of archeology! 21 + mins ..

Thanks for this video. Please do more of indus valley civilization.

One would have to give it to the wisdom of the academics who assign names to civilizations. After it was discovered that the expanse of what had been called as Indus Valley Civilization was far bigger and possibly encompassed more river systems than previously thought, they felt that IVC was a rather localized name, so they came up with an even more localized name, Harappan Civilization.

Thank you so much for this episode 🎉

Thanku Dishaji

Thanks for your episode. Look forward to seeing more.

Please make it more interesting by adding graphics and maps

Thank you for this Disha,new insights are always welcome and your video resonates with the facts put forth in the lovely book by GD Bakshi about”Saraswati civilization “…the more we dig deeper with new findings we know the neucleus of the great Harrapan civilization is not just the Indus river area…hope we can explore more and unearth more!

Literally yesterday morning, i randomly googled 'oldest IVC site' and Bhirana came up. Guess my surprise at this video

What do you think about site called chandraketu card in Bengal and please consider it makes sign for making your video as it is Harappan art of facts as well

Great informative video

You could have used maps and dates more effectively using carbon dating, area of coverage of excavations, locations of site etc. If I understand correctly what you called hakra river was probably Sarswati river.

Please work on the narrative. Thank you.

Is it true that the name Harappa came from a place known in Sanskrit as Hariyupiya? Was it a city or a region?

Madam, please also show or describe some articles, seals etc. which are found in the sites that you discuss in each article. It helps us connect better.

Audio is poor

Thank you for this.😊

Very interesting - How the 2008 Alamgirpur re-excavation challenged timeline of mighty Harappan civilisation. I was wondering if there are other sites BETWEEN 'core' Harappan sites and the Alamgirpur one?

21 mins was not necessary! Disha ji can learn some techniques from Shekhar ji.

Archaeology is getting back to being in fashion. Having young archaeologists helps!

Madam, if you are not working to a narrative, please provide names of archeologists and their works to support your narrative.

Identity is the root cause of suffering 😊😂

At least use a good collar mic.

Finally these guys will realize it’s just Indus Valley all over India 😂😂😂

Indus is Vedic civilisation only. It's timeline and geography exactly matches the Vedic timeline and geography. Proud to be part of heritage of Aryavarta.

I do not know what this woman is blabbering as Alamgirpur has been included in Harrapan civilization range for a long time. Howwever the place is too close to the old range of the Harrapan world and does not discredit the fact that civilization moved to the Ganges much later.

The seals depocting Pashupati Natha Shiva found among the Harappan artifacts is why we believe it has been one coninuous civilization with inevitable absorption of others along the way

If the Harappans trade with far off civilizations like Egypt and Mesapotamia, they could have as easily spread from Indus-Saraswati to Ganga to Godavari to Kaveri! We are talking of a civilization that started from before 5000 BCE! It’s a no brainer really!

Good video 😊

What are some good recommendations for book on indian archeological history

First they shifted Saraswati river to north India ( Ghaghar- hakkar ? 😂 ), now work on enlargening IVC towards Ganga, Jamuna has began. Then they will find its nucleus somewhere near Delhi. Matlab samaj rahe ho, samaj rahe ho.😎 100 Janam lag jayenge tab bhi Saraswati ka meaning nahi malum padega, location dhund ne ki to baat hi rehne do.

All we know is that there was no Rama Sita or Ganesha … it was a Dravidian civilisation

Haplogroup lm20 originated in Harappan /Indus valley area 50,000 years ago which every one is hiding

What evidence suggests a spread as far as Maharashtra? And has any site been excavated in either Maharashtra or Himachal Pradesh?

Madam you are talking to an intelligent audience. Pls think about the narrative you want to talk about before hitting record. Good attempt

Nation build weather by you

If alamgirpur again excavated then it would find that it is 4000 to 6000 bc old

Why the harappan writeup is yet not deciphered?

How hard is it to call it Sindhu Sarasvati Civilisation

Except one minute information at the fag end of the video, that the earliest strata of Alamgirpur re-exavation goes back to 2600 BCE,every thing else is disorganised beating around the bush.My time is wasted.

Repeating same information over and over

😊😊Mujhe Yeh ladki pasand aa gayi, Yeh kaha milengi?

You will I am sure, Print Media try very hard to be an online Archeologist. What a click bait.

Everything is fine, but Alamgirpur.....what a inappropriate name for the timeless civilizational site.

Mam Hindi mein bol deti to bot acha hota

Making up for gaps in NCERT text books.

Interesting stuff, but your style is quite repetitive; learn to be concise.

SCA

Madam, you have great topic at hand & your academic understanding of it is quite good. But sorry to say, the presentation of this important topic was way off .. nearly rambling on & on into boring the viewer out with irrelevance. Pls do not take this criticism as discouragement at all. I'm glad there is at least one publication that is going to topics that nobody else even thinks about. Print has great real journalists & specialists .. who though have yet to master the audio visual medium. Many factors that led to this .. the sound recording is low quality, even the pronunciation is unclear. Lot of words & loose words .. rambling on .. the script not being precise & pointed. The scope & reference of the vlog not made clear upfront. No graphics to enhance conveying of points & understanding of it. Just talk & talk .. that was not well structured & one could never get a grasp of the various timelines & the references & interrelationships. The narration tone too is very reluctant & uninviting. In the end, an opportunity lost. But also an opportunity to improve the structure, content & delivery effectively. All the best .. & keep it up. Do not get discouraged or upset by this criticism. I only wish the best for you. I'm still upvoting this coz I think we need more such diversification into art, sciences, philosophy & abstracts.

Harappa civilisation is post Mahabharata civilization. Mahabharata war took place in about 5000 BC but Rakhigarhi is only from 4000 BC. It is not Vedic but much later.

श्रीमती के मुह में किसी अंग्रेज ने अपनी अंग्रेजी डाल दी है। इसलिए अंग्रेजी ही अंग्रेजी निकल रही है।

Disha's digging up a lot of old issues. Aspiring politician?

Good one. So, drought in Indus river forced the Indus people out of the valley is not a credible hypothesis anymore ha. The civilizations which are part of Indus were living way east and south, so drought in himalayas and ice age drought lost little bit of credibility now. It has to be conflict between civilization and the nomads, since that was what happened over and over the next 2000 years of contact between the civilization and the new nomads, why would be the first one would have been any different ? I still believe Indus Harrappan people are Dravidian people, the Indigenous civilization of, you can say "India" or "Bharath", well that bharath part came way later, so Indigenous people of the Indus valley or India. It is very sad with all the modern development, the linguistic development still couldn't decipher Indus valley languages. I hope somewhere someone finds the DNA samples, that will reveal the truth for sure.

Ved ic Aryans were fish eating Brahmins and Dravidian were uncivilized dasyus and rakshasas ravans kids

Alamgirpur !! 😂😂😂 This is rubbish

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BJP will propose to nominate women parliamentary members rather than elect them. One should remember Sanatan Dharma and Manu Smrity treat women as men's property and restrict women's rights. The Brahmin-dominated RSS will never allow women's rights to be enhanced beyond cosmetic changes.

How many Indians actually believe that Harappa is the ancestral civilization to modern India? What nonsense! Why reject India’s Aryan heritage from Central Asia?

J&k in the north.....manda jammu....Correct yourself