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Research paper thumbnail of Rang Mahal Culture : Emerging Picture  in Hanumangarh District Rajasthan

Rajasthan History Congress , 2023

The paper is base on archaeological exploration (Village to village Survey) of Hanumangarh Distri... more The paper is base on archaeological exploration (Village to village Survey) of Hanumangarh District (Rajasthan)

Research paper thumbnail of Explorations in the North-western   fringe of Yamuna Plains   (District Sonepat, Haryana)

JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF MUMBAI, 2023

This paper is an initial report of a village-to-village survey of Sonepat District, Haryana. A ... more This paper is an initial report of a village-to-village survey of
Sonepat District, Haryana. A total number of Three-hundred and nine
archaeological sites were documented during the exploration in 2017-2018 and revisited in 2019. Out of them one hundred sixty are new sites which were the plotted first time on an archaeological map.

Research paper thumbnail of Archaeological Distribution Pattern of Settlements in Hanumangarh District Rajasthan

Rajasthan History Congress, PROCEEDINGS VOLUME XXXIV, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Rohtak and its Historicity : With special reference to Archaeological Expedition

Maharshi Dayanand University Research Journal Arts, 2021

The present trend in the study of history and culture is not familiar with the ‘when and where’ b... more The present trend in the study of history and culture is not familiar with the ‘when and where’ but ‘how and why’ of the actual reasons behind the events. Understanding the past that is unlike present is a complex process. The aim of the study is to determine factors responsible for the expansion, dispersal, diffusion and migration of cultures in this area and to produce a complete picture of the past history based on archaeological evidence as well as literary aspect of the region from the earliest times to 1200 A.D.

Research paper thumbnail of Harappan Civilization: Emerging Picture in Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan

Research paper thumbnail of An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Proto historic Settlements in Mansa District, Punjab

Thereisahugedisparitybetweentheknownarchaeologicalevidencesonwhichwebaseour hypothesis and the fa... more Thereisahugedisparitybetweentheknownarchaeologicalevidencesonwhichwebaseour hypothesis and the facts that remain to be revealed. This paper discusses recent fieldwork conducted duringJulyAugust2013intheMansadistrict(Punjab).Asaresult34outof170previouslyidentified sites associated with protohistoric period, were documented. The southern Punjab (Mansa District) is veryrichinarchaeologicalpotential.AnalluvialplainofSutlejYamunadivideplayedaveryimportant role in the human history since the remote antiquity. This survey provided to reiterate a number of problems connected with the origin, development and expansion of the early farming cultures in the regionandtounderstandthemechanismofexpansion,dispersalanddiffusionofculturaltraitswiththeir geographicalcontextparticularlyonSirhindChoorNalla,duringanduptotheemergenceofIronAge. The main objective of present study is to present a holistic perspective of the protohistoric people by understandingtheregiononthebasisofmaterialremainscollectedduringtheinvestigation.Apartfrom severalexplorations,includingthepresentone,theonlysiteinthestudyregionnamelyDhelawanhas been excavated which brought to light significant details of the people; besides various new features of protohistoricculturewhichweredocumentedthroughregionalsurvey.

Research paper thumbnail of Geoarchaeological Survey and Excavations at Burj-2010, Fatehabad, Haryana

Harappans, Excavations in proximity of Kunal and Bhirrana

Research paper thumbnail of Protohistoric Settlement Pattern in Bawani Khera Block, District Bhiwani, Haryana

Research paper thumbnail of New Insights into Settlement along the Ghaggar and its Hinterland: a Preliminary Report on the Ghaggar Hinterland Survey 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Harappan Settlement Pattern on the Desert Margin with Special Reference to Hanumangarh District

This article examine the settlement pattern on the margin of Thar Desert. The role of Palaeo-Chan... more This article examine the settlement pattern on the margin of Thar Desert. The role of Palaeo-Channels to flourished the Harappan settlement in such a desert climate. How these Palaeo-Channel played a significant role to flourished Harappan settlements.

Research paper thumbnail of Holocene landscape dynamics in the Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel region at the northern edge of the Thar Desert, northwest India

Quaternary International, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Intensified summer monsoon and the urbanization of Indus Civilization in northwest India

Scientific reports, Jan 9, 2018

Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but ... more Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but were densely occupied by the populations of the Indus Civilization during the middle to late Holocene. The hydroclimatic conditions under which Indus urbanization took place, which was marked by a period of expanded settlement into the Thar Desert margins, remains poorly understood. We measured the isotopic values (δO and δD) of gypsum hydration water in paleolake Karsandi sediments in northern Rajasthan to infer past changes in lake hydrology, which is sensitive to changing amounts of precipitation and evaporation. Our record reveals that relatively wet conditions prevailed at the northern edge of Rajasthan from ~5.1 ± 0.2 ka BP, during the beginning of the agricultural-based Early Harappan phase of the Indus Civilization. Monsoon rainfall intensified further between 5.0 and 4.4 ka BP, during the period when Indus urban centres developed in the western Thar Desert margin and on the plai...

Research paper thumbnail of Adaptation to Variable Environments, Resilience to Climate Change: InvestigatingLand, Water and Settlementin Indus Northwest India

Current Anthropology, 2017

This paper explores the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a diverse... more This paper explores the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a diverse and varied environmental and ecological context using the case study of South Asia's Indus Civilization (ca. 3000-1300 BC). Most early complex societies developed in regions where the climatic parameters faced by ancient subsistence farmers were varied but rain falls primarily in one season. In contrast, the Indus Civilization developed in a specific environmental context that spanned a very distinct environmental threshold, where winter and summer rainfall systems overlap. There is now evidence to show that this region was directly subject to climate change during the period when the Indus Civilization was at its height (ca. 2500-1900 BC). The Indus Civilization, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to understand how an ancient society coped with diverse and varied ecologies and change in the fundamental environmental parameters. This paper integrates research carried out as part of the Land, Water and Settlement project in northwest India between 2007 and 2014. Although coming from only one of the regions occupied by Indus populations, these data necessitate the reconsideration of several prevailing views about the Indus Civilization as a whole and invigorate discussion about human-environment interactions and their relationship to processes of cultural transformation. Adapting to Variable Environments, Being Resilient to Changing Climates Given the considerable importance of climate, climate change, and human/environment relationships in the present, it is perhaps no surprise that there is ongoing interest in the way that humans caused and/or responded to environmental and ecological change in the past (

Research paper thumbnail of Intensified summer monsoon and the urbanization of Indus Civilization in northwest India

Nature Scientific Reports, 2018

Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but ... more Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but were densely occupied by the populations of the Indus Civilization during the middle to late Holocene. The hydroclimatic conditions under which Indus urbanization took place, which was marked by a period of expanded settlement into the Thar Desert margins, remains poorly understood. We measured the isotopic values (δ18O and δD) of gypsum hydration water in paleolake Karsandi sediments in northern Rajasthan to infer past changes in lake hydrology, which is sensitive to changing amounts of precipitation and evaporation. Our record reveals that relatively wet conditions prevailed at the northern edge of Rajasthan from ~5.1 ± 0.2 ka BP, during the beginning of the agricultural-based Early Harappan phase of the Indus Civilization. Monsoon rainfall intensified further between 5.0 and 4.4 ka BP, during the period when Indus urban centres developed in the western Thar Desert margin and on the plains of Haryana to its north. Drier conditions set in sometime after 4.4 ka BP, and by ~3.9 ka BP an eastward shift of populations had occurred. Our findings provide evidence that climate change was associated with both the expansion and contraction of Indus urbanism along the desert margin in northwest India.

Research paper thumbnail of Singh, Petrie, Alam, Bates, Ceccarelli, Chakraborty, Chakradhari, Chowdhary, Dixit, French, Gieshe, Green, Green, Jones, Lightfoot, Pandey, Pawar, Ranjan, Redhouse, Singh, Suryanarayan, Ustunkaya, and Walker_Living in the Hinterland I: Lohari Ragho 2015-2017_PURATATTVA_2018.pdf

Singh, Petrie, Alam, Bates, Ceccarelli, Chakraborty, Chakradhari, Chowdhary, Dixit, French, Gieshe, Green, Green, Jones, Lightfoot, Pandey, Pawar, Ranjan, Redhouse, Singh, Suryanarayan, Ustunkaya, and Walker_Living in the Hinterland I: Lohari Ragho 2015-2017_PURATATTVA_2018.pdf

Puratattva, 2018

This preliminary report presents an overview of the survey and excavation work at Lohari Ragho I ... more This preliminary report presents an overview of the survey and excavation work at Lohari Ragho I in 2015 and 2017 that was carried out jointly by the Banaras Hindu University and University of Cambridge under the auspices of the TwoRains project. The site of Lohari Ragho I is situated c.9km to the west of Rakhigarhi, and based on surface collections appears to have been occupied in the Early, Mature and Late Harappan periods, as well as in the Early Historic period. The investigations that have been carried out include detailed surface mapping, systematic surface collection, excavation of vertical soundings and horizontal trenches, local-scale surface and subsurface landscape survey, and large-scale settlement location survey.

Research paper thumbnail of Harappan Settlement Pattern on the Desert Margin with Special Reference to Hanumangarh District

Indian Journal of Archaeology, 2018

This article examine the settlement pattern on the margin of Thar Desert. The role of Palaeo-Chan... more This article examine the settlement pattern on the margin of Thar Desert. The role of Palaeo-Channels to flourished the Harappan settlement in such a desert climate. How these Palaeo-Channel played a significant role to flourished Harappan settlements.

Research paper thumbnail of An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Protohistoric SettlementsinMansaDistrict,Punjab

Thereisahugedisparitybetweentheknownarchaeologicalevidencesonwhichwebaseour hypothesis and the fa... more Thereisahugedisparitybetweentheknownarchaeologicalevidencesonwhichwebaseour hypothesis and the facts that remain to be revealed. This paper discusses recent fieldwork conducted duringJulyAugust2013intheMansadistrict(Punjab).Asaresult34outof170previouslyidentified sites associated with protohistoric period, were documented. The southern Punjab (Mansa District) is veryrichinarchaeologicalpotential.AnalluvialplainofSutlejYamunadivideplayedaveryimportant role in the human history since the remote antiquity. This survey provided to reiterate a number of problems connected with the origin, development and expansion of the early farming cultures in the regionandtounderstandthemechanismofexpansion,dispersalanddiffusionofculturaltraitswiththeir geographicalcontextparticularlyonSirhindChoorNalla,duringanduptotheemergenceofIronAge. The main objective of present study is to present a holistic perspective of the protohistoric people by understandingtheregiononthebasisofmaterialremainscollectedduringtheinvestigation.Apartfrom severalexplorations,includingthepresentone,theonlysiteinthestudyregionnamelyDhelawanhas been excavated which brought to light significant details of the people; besides various new features of protohistoricculturewhichweredocumentedthroughregionalsurvey.

Research paper thumbnail of J. Durcan et al. (2017 online). QI. Holocene landscape dynamics in the Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel region at the northern edge of the Thar Desert, northwest India

Precession-forced change in insolation has driven de-intensification of the Asian Monsoon systems... more Precession-forced change in insolation has driven de-intensification of the Asian Monsoon systems during the Holocene. Set against this backdrop of a weakening monsoon, Indus Civilisation populations occupied a number of urban settlements on the Ghaggar-Hakra plains during the mid-Holocene from 4.5 ka until they were abandoned by around 3.9 ka. Regional climatic variability has long been cited as a potential factor in the transformation of Indus society, however there remain substantial gaps in the chronological framework for regional climatic and environmental change at the northern margin of the Thar Desert. This makes establishing a link between climate, environment and society challenging. This paper presents 24 optically stimulated luminescence ages from a mixture of 11 fluvial and aeolian sedimentological sites on the Ghaggar-Hakra floodplain/interfluve, an area which was apparently densely populated during the Indus urban phase and subsequently. These ages identify fluvial deposition which mostly pre-dates 5 ka, although fluvial deposits are detected in the Ghaggar palaeochannel at 3.8 ka and 3.0 ka, post-dating the decline of urbanism. Aeolian accumulation phases occur around 9 ka, 6.5 ka, 2.8 ka and 1.7 ka. There is no clear link to a 4.2 ka abrupt climate event, nor is there a simple switch between dominant fluvial deposition and aeolian accumulation, and instead the OSL ages reported present a view of a highly dynamic geomorphic system during the Holocene. The decline of Indus urbanism was not spatially or temporally instantaneous, and this paper suggests that the same can be said for the geomorphic response of the northern Thar to regional climate change.

Research paper thumbnail of Excavation at Ganeshwar, Sikar, Rajasthan 2013 : A Preliminary Report

Research paper thumbnail of Locational Analysis of Prehistoric 'OCP' Settlements in Tehsil Jhajjar, District Jhajjar, Haryana

Research paper thumbnail of Rang Mahal Culture : Emerging Picture  in Hanumangarh District Rajasthan

Rajasthan History Congress , 2023

The paper is base on archaeological exploration (Village to village Survey) of Hanumangarh Distri... more The paper is base on archaeological exploration (Village to village Survey) of Hanumangarh District (Rajasthan)

Research paper thumbnail of Explorations in the North-western   fringe of Yamuna Plains   (District Sonepat, Haryana)

JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF MUMBAI, 2023

This paper is an initial report of a village-to-village survey of Sonepat District, Haryana. A ... more This paper is an initial report of a village-to-village survey of
Sonepat District, Haryana. A total number of Three-hundred and nine
archaeological sites were documented during the exploration in 2017-2018 and revisited in 2019. Out of them one hundred sixty are new sites which were the plotted first time on an archaeological map.

Research paper thumbnail of Archaeological Distribution Pattern of Settlements in Hanumangarh District Rajasthan

Rajasthan History Congress, PROCEEDINGS VOLUME XXXIV, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Rohtak and its Historicity : With special reference to Archaeological Expedition

Maharshi Dayanand University Research Journal Arts, 2021

The present trend in the study of history and culture is not familiar with the ‘when and where’ b... more The present trend in the study of history and culture is not familiar with the ‘when and where’ but ‘how and why’ of the actual reasons behind the events. Understanding the past that is unlike present is a complex process. The aim of the study is to determine factors responsible for the expansion, dispersal, diffusion and migration of cultures in this area and to produce a complete picture of the past history based on archaeological evidence as well as literary aspect of the region from the earliest times to 1200 A.D.

Research paper thumbnail of Harappan Civilization: Emerging Picture in Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan

Research paper thumbnail of An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Proto historic Settlements in Mansa District, Punjab

Thereisahugedisparitybetweentheknownarchaeologicalevidencesonwhichwebaseour hypothesis and the fa... more Thereisahugedisparitybetweentheknownarchaeologicalevidencesonwhichwebaseour hypothesis and the facts that remain to be revealed. This paper discusses recent fieldwork conducted duringJulyAugust2013intheMansadistrict(Punjab).Asaresult34outof170previouslyidentified sites associated with protohistoric period, were documented. The southern Punjab (Mansa District) is veryrichinarchaeologicalpotential.AnalluvialplainofSutlejYamunadivideplayedaveryimportant role in the human history since the remote antiquity. This survey provided to reiterate a number of problems connected with the origin, development and expansion of the early farming cultures in the regionandtounderstandthemechanismofexpansion,dispersalanddiffusionofculturaltraitswiththeir geographicalcontextparticularlyonSirhindChoorNalla,duringanduptotheemergenceofIronAge. The main objective of present study is to present a holistic perspective of the protohistoric people by understandingtheregiononthebasisofmaterialremainscollectedduringtheinvestigation.Apartfrom severalexplorations,includingthepresentone,theonlysiteinthestudyregionnamelyDhelawanhas been excavated which brought to light significant details of the people; besides various new features of protohistoricculturewhichweredocumentedthroughregionalsurvey.

Research paper thumbnail of Geoarchaeological Survey and Excavations at Burj-2010, Fatehabad, Haryana

Harappans, Excavations in proximity of Kunal and Bhirrana

Research paper thumbnail of Protohistoric Settlement Pattern in Bawani Khera Block, District Bhiwani, Haryana

Research paper thumbnail of New Insights into Settlement along the Ghaggar and its Hinterland: a Preliminary Report on the Ghaggar Hinterland Survey 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Harappan Settlement Pattern on the Desert Margin with Special Reference to Hanumangarh District

This article examine the settlement pattern on the margin of Thar Desert. The role of Palaeo-Chan... more This article examine the settlement pattern on the margin of Thar Desert. The role of Palaeo-Channels to flourished the Harappan settlement in such a desert climate. How these Palaeo-Channel played a significant role to flourished Harappan settlements.

Research paper thumbnail of Holocene landscape dynamics in the Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel region at the northern edge of the Thar Desert, northwest India

Quaternary International, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Intensified summer monsoon and the urbanization of Indus Civilization in northwest India

Scientific reports, Jan 9, 2018

Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but ... more Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but were densely occupied by the populations of the Indus Civilization during the middle to late Holocene. The hydroclimatic conditions under which Indus urbanization took place, which was marked by a period of expanded settlement into the Thar Desert margins, remains poorly understood. We measured the isotopic values (δO and δD) of gypsum hydration water in paleolake Karsandi sediments in northern Rajasthan to infer past changes in lake hydrology, which is sensitive to changing amounts of precipitation and evaporation. Our record reveals that relatively wet conditions prevailed at the northern edge of Rajasthan from ~5.1 ± 0.2 ka BP, during the beginning of the agricultural-based Early Harappan phase of the Indus Civilization. Monsoon rainfall intensified further between 5.0 and 4.4 ka BP, during the period when Indus urban centres developed in the western Thar Desert margin and on the plai...

Research paper thumbnail of Adaptation to Variable Environments, Resilience to Climate Change: InvestigatingLand, Water and Settlementin Indus Northwest India

Current Anthropology, 2017

This paper explores the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a diverse... more This paper explores the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a diverse and varied environmental and ecological context using the case study of South Asia's Indus Civilization (ca. 3000-1300 BC). Most early complex societies developed in regions where the climatic parameters faced by ancient subsistence farmers were varied but rain falls primarily in one season. In contrast, the Indus Civilization developed in a specific environmental context that spanned a very distinct environmental threshold, where winter and summer rainfall systems overlap. There is now evidence to show that this region was directly subject to climate change during the period when the Indus Civilization was at its height (ca. 2500-1900 BC). The Indus Civilization, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to understand how an ancient society coped with diverse and varied ecologies and change in the fundamental environmental parameters. This paper integrates research carried out as part of the Land, Water and Settlement project in northwest India between 2007 and 2014. Although coming from only one of the regions occupied by Indus populations, these data necessitate the reconsideration of several prevailing views about the Indus Civilization as a whole and invigorate discussion about human-environment interactions and their relationship to processes of cultural transformation. Adapting to Variable Environments, Being Resilient to Changing Climates Given the considerable importance of climate, climate change, and human/environment relationships in the present, it is perhaps no surprise that there is ongoing interest in the way that humans caused and/or responded to environmental and ecological change in the past (

Research paper thumbnail of Intensified summer monsoon and the urbanization of Indus Civilization in northwest India

Nature Scientific Reports, 2018

Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but ... more Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but were densely occupied by the populations of the Indus Civilization during the middle to late Holocene. The hydroclimatic conditions under which Indus urbanization took place, which was marked by a period of expanded settlement into the Thar Desert margins, remains poorly understood. We measured the isotopic values (δ18O and δD) of gypsum hydration water in paleolake Karsandi sediments in northern Rajasthan to infer past changes in lake hydrology, which is sensitive to changing amounts of precipitation and evaporation. Our record reveals that relatively wet conditions prevailed at the northern edge of Rajasthan from ~5.1 ± 0.2 ka BP, during the beginning of the agricultural-based Early Harappan phase of the Indus Civilization. Monsoon rainfall intensified further between 5.0 and 4.4 ka BP, during the period when Indus urban centres developed in the western Thar Desert margin and on the plains of Haryana to its north. Drier conditions set in sometime after 4.4 ka BP, and by ~3.9 ka BP an eastward shift of populations had occurred. Our findings provide evidence that climate change was associated with both the expansion and contraction of Indus urbanism along the desert margin in northwest India.

Research paper thumbnail of Singh, Petrie, Alam, Bates, Ceccarelli, Chakraborty, Chakradhari, Chowdhary, Dixit, French, Gieshe, Green, Green, Jones, Lightfoot, Pandey, Pawar, Ranjan, Redhouse, Singh, Suryanarayan, Ustunkaya, and Walker_Living in the Hinterland I: Lohari Ragho 2015-2017_PURATATTVA_2018.pdf

Singh, Petrie, Alam, Bates, Ceccarelli, Chakraborty, Chakradhari, Chowdhary, Dixit, French, Gieshe, Green, Green, Jones, Lightfoot, Pandey, Pawar, Ranjan, Redhouse, Singh, Suryanarayan, Ustunkaya, and Walker_Living in the Hinterland I: Lohari Ragho 2015-2017_PURATATTVA_2018.pdf

Puratattva, 2018

This preliminary report presents an overview of the survey and excavation work at Lohari Ragho I ... more This preliminary report presents an overview of the survey and excavation work at Lohari Ragho I in 2015 and 2017 that was carried out jointly by the Banaras Hindu University and University of Cambridge under the auspices of the TwoRains project. The site of Lohari Ragho I is situated c.9km to the west of Rakhigarhi, and based on surface collections appears to have been occupied in the Early, Mature and Late Harappan periods, as well as in the Early Historic period. The investigations that have been carried out include detailed surface mapping, systematic surface collection, excavation of vertical soundings and horizontal trenches, local-scale surface and subsurface landscape survey, and large-scale settlement location survey.

Research paper thumbnail of Harappan Settlement Pattern on the Desert Margin with Special Reference to Hanumangarh District

Indian Journal of Archaeology, 2018

This article examine the settlement pattern on the margin of Thar Desert. The role of Palaeo-Chan... more This article examine the settlement pattern on the margin of Thar Desert. The role of Palaeo-Channels to flourished the Harappan settlement in such a desert climate. How these Palaeo-Channel played a significant role to flourished Harappan settlements.

Research paper thumbnail of An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Protohistoric SettlementsinMansaDistrict,Punjab

Thereisahugedisparitybetweentheknownarchaeologicalevidencesonwhichwebaseour hypothesis and the fa... more Thereisahugedisparitybetweentheknownarchaeologicalevidencesonwhichwebaseour hypothesis and the facts that remain to be revealed. This paper discusses recent fieldwork conducted duringJulyAugust2013intheMansadistrict(Punjab).Asaresult34outof170previouslyidentified sites associated with protohistoric period, were documented. The southern Punjab (Mansa District) is veryrichinarchaeologicalpotential.AnalluvialplainofSutlejYamunadivideplayedaveryimportant role in the human history since the remote antiquity. This survey provided to reiterate a number of problems connected with the origin, development and expansion of the early farming cultures in the regionandtounderstandthemechanismofexpansion,dispersalanddiffusionofculturaltraitswiththeir geographicalcontextparticularlyonSirhindChoorNalla,duringanduptotheemergenceofIronAge. The main objective of present study is to present a holistic perspective of the protohistoric people by understandingtheregiononthebasisofmaterialremainscollectedduringtheinvestigation.Apartfrom severalexplorations,includingthepresentone,theonlysiteinthestudyregionnamelyDhelawanhas been excavated which brought to light significant details of the people; besides various new features of protohistoricculturewhichweredocumentedthroughregionalsurvey.

Research paper thumbnail of J. Durcan et al. (2017 online). QI. Holocene landscape dynamics in the Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel region at the northern edge of the Thar Desert, northwest India

Precession-forced change in insolation has driven de-intensification of the Asian Monsoon systems... more Precession-forced change in insolation has driven de-intensification of the Asian Monsoon systems during the Holocene. Set against this backdrop of a weakening monsoon, Indus Civilisation populations occupied a number of urban settlements on the Ghaggar-Hakra plains during the mid-Holocene from 4.5 ka until they were abandoned by around 3.9 ka. Regional climatic variability has long been cited as a potential factor in the transformation of Indus society, however there remain substantial gaps in the chronological framework for regional climatic and environmental change at the northern margin of the Thar Desert. This makes establishing a link between climate, environment and society challenging. This paper presents 24 optically stimulated luminescence ages from a mixture of 11 fluvial and aeolian sedimentological sites on the Ghaggar-Hakra floodplain/interfluve, an area which was apparently densely populated during the Indus urban phase and subsequently. These ages identify fluvial deposition which mostly pre-dates 5 ka, although fluvial deposits are detected in the Ghaggar palaeochannel at 3.8 ka and 3.0 ka, post-dating the decline of urbanism. Aeolian accumulation phases occur around 9 ka, 6.5 ka, 2.8 ka and 1.7 ka. There is no clear link to a 4.2 ka abrupt climate event, nor is there a simple switch between dominant fluvial deposition and aeolian accumulation, and instead the OSL ages reported present a view of a highly dynamic geomorphic system during the Holocene. The decline of Indus urbanism was not spatially or temporally instantaneous, and this paper suggests that the same can be said for the geomorphic response of the northern Thar to regional climate change.

Research paper thumbnail of Excavation at Ganeshwar, Sikar, Rajasthan 2013 : A Preliminary Report

Research paper thumbnail of Locational Analysis of Prehistoric 'OCP' Settlements in Tehsil Jhajjar, District Jhajjar, Haryana

Research paper thumbnail of Joint Coins Issues : A Study of Ancient North India

Shri Sai Printographers, New Delhi, 2016

The present work on joint coins issues of Ancient North India. These coins cover the period from ... more The present work on joint coins issues of Ancient North India. These coins cover the period from the earliest times to early medieval. Total four chapter in this work. Chapter first deals with Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian, Chapter deals with the Kushanas, Indigenous joint issues discussed in Chapter third, forth or last Chapter deals with early medieval and last the conclusion drawn by researcher on the basis of his studies and conclusion is followed by a selected bibliography.

Research paper thumbnail of हरियाणा के प्राचीन जल - संवाहक : एक पुरातात्विक समीक्षा

Ane Books Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, 2019

डॉ. विकास पवार ने अपने शोधपत्र 'हरियाणा के प्राचीन जल - संवाहक : एक पुरातात्विक समीक्षा' में बताय... more डॉ. विकास पवार ने अपने शोधपत्र 'हरियाणा के प्राचीन जल - संवाहक : एक पुरातात्विक समीक्षा' में बताया कि निश्चित वाहिकाओं के माध्यम से हो रहे जलप्रवाह को अपवाह कहते हैंI जबकि इन वाहिकाओं के जाल को अपवाह तंत्र कहा जाता हैI किसी क्षेत्र का अपवाह तंत्र वहां के भूवैज्ञानिक समयावधि चट्टानों कि प्रकृति एवं संरचना, स्थलाकृति, ढाल, बहते हुए जल कि मात्रा और बहाव कि अवधि का परिणाम हैI