This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

and this is volume 2 the ancient world

episode 26 the Indus Valley Civilization. Oh, This week we are traveling to the Indus Valley, which as you might expect, is centered around the Indus River.

However, as we are going to discover, the peoples who we refer to as the ancient Indus Valley civilization

covered such a large geographical area that we can also include the Gaga Hakra River, which ran parallel to the Indus River.

And has also been hypothesized to be the Vedic Saraswati River. And by Vedic we mean of the Vedas, which are ancient scriptures that belong to the Hindu religion.

Back in the first volume of the podcast, we recognise that agricultural practices appear

to emerge on a widespread scale sometime between 7,000 and 6,000 B.C. E.

Meghar is a good example of an Indus Valley Neolithic village that demonstrates the domestication of wheat and barley

as well as goats, sheep and cattle. These people would be living in simple

mud brick houses but would have been creating

ornaments which included materials which would have had to have been imported

from areas to the north and west, indicating long distance trade.

After 5,000 b.C.E, we observe that this society would have started working with ceramics and then metals, which

seem very natural progressions in the Neolithic and Calcophic world.

It would be the British while in modern Pakistan who would stumble across an ancient

site of great interest during the 1820s. More specifically in the province of Punjab.

The city would come to be known as Harappa and its glory years would be

dated between 2,600 and its glory years would be dated between 2,600 and 1900

b.C.

a period referred to as the mature Harapan.

However, clay tablets dating back to around 3,300 B.C. were discovered, which are very interesting.

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