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Prehistory and the Harappan civilization
7,000–1,501 BCE
Key events
| c. 7,000 BCE · Mehrgarh | Farming begins at Mehrgarh |
| c. 5,500 BCE · Mehrgarh | Pottery appears at Mehrgarh |
| c. 5,000 BCE · Mehrgarh | Earliest cotton and copper at Mehrgarh |
| c. 4,000 BCE · Bhirrana | Hakra-ware villages at Bhirrana and Kunal |
| c. 3,300 BCE · Harappa | Early Harappan phase begins |
| c. 3,000 BCE · Burzahom | Neolithic pit-dwellings at Burzahom |
| c. 2,900 BCE · Sanganakallu | Ash mounds of the southern Neolithic |
| c. 2,600 BCE · Mohenjo-daro | Mature Harappan urban phase begins |
| c. 2,500 BCE · Dholavira | Dholavira's reservoirs and 'signboard' |
| c. 2,400 BCE · Lothal | Lothal dockyard in use |
| c. 2,300 BCE · Lothal | Harappan trade with Mesopotamia ('Meluhha') |
| c. 2,000 BCE · Ganga-Yamuna doab | Copper hoards and OCP settlements in the doab |
| c. 1,900 BCE · Indus basin | Decline of the Harappan cities |
| c. 1,750 BCE · Kalibangan | Kalibangan abandoned |
| c. 1,700 BCE · Navdatoli | Malwa culture at Navdatoli |
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