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The Indus valley civilisation is also called the Harappan culture(c. 2600 and 1900 BCE.)

Mohenjodaro, the best-known Harappan site:

copper was
also probably brought from Oman,

The study
of these layers is called
stratigraphy

number of wells in Mohenjodaro was about 700

Ganeshwar-Jodhpura culture,
with its distinctive non-Harappan pottery and
an unusual wealth of copper objects. It is possible
that the inhabitants of this region supplied copper
to the Harappans.

far-off Afghanistan,
near the best source of lapis lazuli, a blue stone
that was apparently very highly valued

expeditions to areas such as the

Khetri region of Rajasthan (for copper) and south
India (for gold).

Alexander Cunningham, the

first Director-General of the
Archaeological Survey of
India (ASI), often called the
father of Indian archaeology