History - IVC - IMPORTANT FACTS

• Lothal is situated on the banks of river Bhogao
• Chanhudaro is the only IVC site to have curved bricks
• Kalibangan is the only IVC site to yield ornamental bricks, cylindrical granary and camel's bones
• The smallest IVC site Alla Dinho was discovered by Fairservice and it yields a distribution centre and
• A jewellery hoard
• Evidence of corbelled odrain in Mohenjodaro
• In Ropar we find the evidence of burial of dog along with the master
• Bruce Foote is known as "the father of Indian prehistory"
• From Nippur in Mesopotamia we find Harappan seals bearing the image of unicorn
• Evidence of horse from Surkotoda, Ropar,Lothal,Kalibangan, Rana Ghundai and Harappa
• Evidence of bones of rhinoceros from Amri
• Silver made its first appearance in IVC
• First fortified town in IVC was Ropar
• Brahui in Pakistan is the tribe believed to be the descendants of the Mohenjodaro people
• In Kalibangan and Rangpur no evidence of Mother Godess was found
• Farmana Khas is the latest Harappan site to be discovered
• Tiger seal is found at Banawali and button seal at Lothal
• Granary was the largest of all IVC buildings
• From Banawali a touchstone and a bronze chariot are found
• In Lothal doors and windows open by roads and not by lanes unlike other sites
• ‘Hakra Ware’ is found in Rakhigarhi