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MEHRGARH
✅ It is a neolithic site dated 7000-2000 BC situated on the Kacchi plains in Baluchistan, Pakistan near the Bolan Pass, one of the most important routes into Iran.
✅ One of the earliest sites to show evidence of farming and herding in South Asia.
✅ Mehrgarh was one of places where people learnt to grow barley and wheat and rear sheep and goats for the first time in the subcontinent.
✅ At this site, animal bones were found. Bones of wild animals such as deer and pig and bones of sheep and goat were found.
✅ It is one of the earliest villages that we know about.
✅ Houses: Square or rectangular houses are found here. Each house had four or more compartments, some of which may have been used for storage.
✅ Burial: Several burial sites have been found at Mehrgarh. In one instance, dead person was buried with goats, which were probably meant to serve as food in next world (belief in afterlife)
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