Lohari Ragho
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Lohari Ragho is a village and
It is 8 km southwest of its erstwhile urban center of Rakhigarhi, 60 km from its IVC cultural ancestor Siswal, 55 km northeast of district headquarter Hisar, 133 km northwest of national capital New Delhi, and 175 km southwest of state capital Chandigarh.
Background
Site location of 3 mounds
Lahori Ragho can be reached from Hansi on Hansi-Jind State Highway SH-12[1] which runs in northeast direction from Hansi. At 15.2 km on SH-12 from Hansi bypass, where there is Bharat Petroleum's filling station near Majra Payau, another subsidiary road in northwestern direction off SH-12 goes to Lohari Ragho which is another 7 km.
Lohari Ragho has following 3 separate mounds near Lohari Ragho village, at least 1 km apart, hence each one must be treated as a separate site.[1]
- Lohari Ragho Mound-I: This one is the village in northwest corner of village lal dora near where the unpaved track to Datta village starts.
- Lohari Ragho Mound-II: This one is 950 m west of first one, it lies on the unpaved track which leads to Datta village.
- Lohari Ragho Mound-III: This one is 1.5 km southwest of the second one, it lies in the farms.
Lohari Ragho - an ancient outer suburb of Rakhigarhi city
Bolstering the status of Rakhigarhi as the largest
Within 5 km radius are
Within 5 km to 10 km radius, early Harappan sites are Lohari Ragho 1, Lohari Ragho 2 and
Within 5 km to 10 km radius are early, mature and late Harrpan sites. To the north-west of Rakhigarhi are Panhari, Gyanpura, Sotha, Kagsar, Sulchani and south-west of Rakhigarhi are Sisai 1, 2 and 3, Rajpura 2, Pali and Masudpur.[2]
History of excavation
There has been no excavation but visits by several archaeologists who have confirmed the presence of 2 phases of Harappan culture.
These mounds were first reported by Dhoop Sing and Chanderpal Sing of Haryana Department of Archaeology (HAD) (IAR-1980-8:16) as Late Harappan site which was written about in an article by J.P. Joshi (1984) which attributed these mounds to Sothi-Siswal period (a sub-culture of Late Harappan phase). Tejas Garge, Director of Maharashtra Archaeology department, who visited these sites also confirmed presence of additional Mature Harappan phase as well.[1]
Archaeology of the site
3 separate mounds
Three mounds belonging to the
Pottery culture and artifacts
Tejas Garge, found the following the pottery at the site, these were all shards except a small bowl and a lota where specifically mentioned to be whole artifact:[1]
- Redware, associated with IVC culture
- Slipped redware
- small-sized, Lota complete and unbroken: spouted gobular pot
- medium-large, jar, globular in shape with short out turned beaked rim, medium fabric.
- jar, gobular shaped, medium fabric
- medium size, jar ,with short externally projecting rim, having medium-to-fine fine fabric.
- medium sized, jar, out turning beaded rim
- large, bowl, shallow shaped with inverted/incurred rim and horizontal groove on the neck
- basin, slip with flaring slides and an out turned rim,
- jar, medium fabric with wavy incisions
- jar/vase, medium fabric with wavy incisions
- Slipped redware
- Unslipped redware
- bowl, with convex profile and inside-out rim, medium fabric
- jar, with narrow mouth and external inside-out rim, fine-to-medium fabric
- pot, shallow shaped, horizontal line incisions on the shoulder
- bowl (bottom portion only)
- small-medium size, pot, out turned beaded rim.
- medium size, jar with narrow mouth and externally projecting rim.
- medium size, basin,out turned beaked rim and projecting shoulders.
- Slipped redware with black color:
- jar/vase, with prominent flutings on the exterior, "black slipped" red ware fast wheel pottery
- bowl (complete / unbroken), small size, slip with a horizontal black colour band on neck
- Slipped redware with black color:
- Greyware (vedic era, which shows this site had overlap of later harappan and early vedic period.
- Slipped
- dish (piece of narrow shaft only), having a gray ware stand, fine fabric.
- Slipped
See also
- Indus Valley civilization
- List of Indus Valley Civilization sites
- Bhirrana, 4 phases of IVC with earliest dated to 8th-7th millennium BCE
- Kalibanga, an IVC town and fort with several phases starting from Early harappan phase
- Rakhigarhi, one of the largest IVC city with 4 phases of IVC with earliest dated to 8th-7th millennium BCE
- Kunal, pre harappan cultural ancestor of Rehman Dheri
- List of inventions and discoveries of the Indus Valley Civilization
- Hydraulic engineering of the Indus Valley Civilization
- Sanitation of the Indus Valley civilisation
- Periodisation of the Indus Valley civilisation
- Pottery in the Indian subcontinent
- Bara culture, subtype of Late-Harappan Phase
- Black and red ware, belonging to neolithic and Pre-Harappan phases
- Kunal culture, subtype of Pre-Harappan Phase
- Sothi-Siswal culture, subtype of Pre-Harappan Phase
- Cemetery H culture (2000-1400 BC), early Indo-Aryan pottery at IVC sites later evolved into Painted Grey Ware culture of Vedic period
- Pottery in the Indian subcontinent
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Garge, T., (2010). Sothi-Siswal Ceramic Assemblage: A Reappraisal. Ancient Asia. 2, pp.15–40. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/aa.10203
- ^ a b c d "ASI Rakhigarhi Excavation Report for 1997-98 and 199-2001 excavations, Author: Dr. Amrendra Nath, Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India, Published: 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ What is slip in pottery, thepotterywheel.com, accessed 10 July 2021.
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