5 results for “Harappan town planning”
Harappan cities show remarkable attention to streets, houses, drainage, wells and water storage. Mohenjo-daro developed an elaborate network of wells and drains, while Dholavira created large reservoirs to survive in an arid environment.
Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were two major urban centres of the Indus Civilization. Their streets, brick buildings, drainage systems and public structures reveal a highly developed tradition of urban life.
The first cities of the Indian subcontinent did not appear suddenly. Over thousands of years, hunting and gathering, farming, settled villages, craft production and growing trade networks gradually created the conditions for Harappan urbanization.
The Indus Civilization was spread across a vast region and included many important settlements beyond Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Dholavira, Lothal, Kalibangan and Rakhigarhi each reveal different aspects of Harappan urban life, trade, farming, water management and regional diversity.
The discovery of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro in the early twentieth century revealed a previously unknown Bronze Age urban civilization. This topic explains how the civilization was recognized and how archaeologists divide its long history into Early, Mature and Late Harappan phases.
