Site Location Important Findings
Harappa Situated on the banks of the river Ravi in Punjab (Pakistan).
  • Sandstone statues of Human anatomy
  • Granaries
  • Bullock carts
  • Mother Goddess
Mohenjo-Daro (Also called Mound of the Dead) (UNESCO World Heritage Site) Situated on the Banks of the River Indus in Punjab (Pakistan)
  • Great bath
  • Granary
  • Bronze dancing girl
  • Seal of Pasupathi Mahadeva
  • Steatite statue of a bearded man
  • A piece of woven cotton
Suktagendor In southwestern Balochistan province, Pakistan, on the Dast River
  • A trade point between Harappa and Babylon
Chanhudaro Sindh (Pakistan) on the banks of the Indus River
  • Bead making
  • The footprint of a dog chasing a cat
Amri Sindh on the banks of the Indus River
  • Evidence of Antelope
Kalibangan Rajasthan on the banks of the Ghaggar River
  • Fire altar
  • Camel bones
  • Wooden plough
Lothal Gujarat is on the banks of the Bhogva River near the Gulf of Cambay
  • Dockyard
  • Rice husk
  • Fire altars
  • Chess playing
Surkotada Gujarat
  • Bones of horses
  • Beads
Banawali Haryana
  • Beads
  • Barley
  • Evidence of both the pre-Harappan and Harappan cultures
Dholavira (UNESCO World Heritage Site) Gujarat in the Rann of Kachchh
  • Water harnessing system
  • Water reservoir
Rakhigarhi Haryana
  • Granary
  • Cemetery
  • Drains
  • Terracotta bricks
Ropar (The first site to be excavated after

independence.)

 On the banks of the River Sutlej in Punjab, India
  • Dog buried with human in oval pit burials
  • copper axe.
Alamgirpur Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the Yamuna –

Easternmost site of IVC.
  • broken blade made of copper
  • ceramic items
  • Impression of a cloth on a trough
Mehrgarh Pakistan
  • Pottery
  • copper tools
Kot Diji Pakistan
  • Statues of Bull
Daimabad (the southernmost site of IVC) Maharashtra
  • Bronze Chariot
Mand (Northernmost site) Jammu and Kashmir

 

Source: The Hindu

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