Sarasvati Civilization: locus

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>Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:45:28 -0000 > >There have been suggestions that the

ancient settlements on River >Sarasvati should be listed. > >Here it is. > >The

file is titled: SARASVATI CIVILIZATION: LOCUS >It is available at

>http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/sarasvatilocus.pdf > >The document includes

a note on typology of sites with two >appendices: > >1. a comprehensive list of

c. 2000 (out of the total of c. >2600) archaeological sites of the civilization,

mostly on the banks >of Vedic River Sarasvati with details of bibliographical

references, >site sizes in hectare, site location coordinates and the

typological >classification of the artifacts surveyed/excavated at the sites;

and > >2. a comprehensive archaeological and geological bibliography >with

particular reference to issues related to archaeology, culture, >tourism and

water resources management for the locations mostly >along the river banks, and

close to the coastline in Gujarat. >The references for sites are taken from

Archaeological Survey of >India Annual Reports, Pakistan Archaeology and

Puratattva journal > >Also included in the pdf document are two maps prepared

by National >Water Development Agency as part of the Perspective Plan for

inter- >basin transfers which include the revival of River Sarasvati upto

>Sabarmati in Gujarat. > >It is notable that there are site names with the

phoneme, `kot' >(meaning: fortification), evoking the fortifications of

Dholavira >located in a site called `kot-da'. There are other sites such >as

`sur-kota-da', `kot-diji' and many fortifications in Bhatinda and >Bhatner

(Hanumangarh). > >It is also notable that not many sites include the phoneme,

`sar' >(meaning: lake), this despite the fact there are on Survey of India

>toposheets many place names with –sar suffix as in: Thanesar, >Lakhansar. This

indicates that the ancient settlements were on river >banks and on banks of

tributaries of River Sarasvati and NOT close >to lakes (which is a later-day

geological phenomenon, caused by >tectonics and final desiccation of the river

c. 1500 BCE and the >meandering flows of water in the river during monsoon

seasons, >accumulating in lakes in the troughs created due to uplifts and

>submergences caused by lineaments, fault-lines and quakes). It >should be

noted that the mean height above sea level at Agra is only >50 feet attesting

to the remarkably flat plain in north-west >Bha_rata. Hence, the non-grading

and meandering flows of palaeo- >channels. > >Next step is to plot (using GIS)

the palae-channels in reference to >the coordinates of the settlements on maps

of scale o 1: 25,000 >using Indian Space Research Organization palaeo-channel

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