Historic Wednesday

            The chalcolithic period refers to that part of old-world prehistory wedged between Neolithic, and the  urban and literate societies of bronze age. This was the era when the first metal was found and it was nothing else but the copper and there was extensive use of mixture of stone and copper as stone increases strength it had been added to copper. The term Chalcolithic is a combination of two words- Chalco + Lithic was derived from the Greek words "khalkos" + "líthos" which means "copper" and "stone" or Copper Age. It is  also known as the Eneolithic or Aneolithic (from Latin aeneus "of copper") is an    archaeological period that is usually considered to be part of the broader Neolithic (although it was originally defined as a transition between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age). Copper age is associated with wide-spread Copper Metallurgy. Credits: https://www.alchemyias.com/           In ...

  Harappa                       Harappa was the Site which changed the World View and understanding of Indian History . Earlier to the discovery of this site some Historians found out similarities between the linguistics of  Indian Subcontinent and Europe and Middle East Asia , they hypothesized that a migration would have been taken place from the Pont Steppe region to Europe and South East Asia which was true according to European Historical Evidences and Discourse, but when the discovery of Harappa happened the carbon dating was found out to be much earlier than the predicted Migration, It changed the Whole discourse and disrupted the earlier hypothesis of Invasion and Migration to the Indian Sub-Continent and South East Asia. There are Debates ,Views and Different Hypothesis about the Indus Valley Civilization among Historians, but due to Discovery of this Site it was Certain that our Civilization was much older a...

Alamgirpur                 Alamgirpur is one of the most eastern site found in Indus Valley civilization. The most astonishing fact about this site is that it situated along the Yamuna River ,which also suggest that as there may be more other sites along the course of Yamuna river as previously were founded on course of Indus river and on course of Ghaggar-Hakra river.  Recent geochronological, geochemical and geophysical studies hypothesize that the rivers Yamuna, Sutlej and Beas were probably flowing into the palaeo-Ghaggar and that their migrations disconnected the river from its perennial glacial sources  It has been proposed that owing to river avulsions, the Yamuna moved away during 49-10 ka and the connection to the Sutlej was lost during the Early-Holocene (~9 ka). Due to discovery of Site of Alamgir many new things about our history got unfolded. The change of course of rivers may have been one of the reasons of decline of Harap...

          Indus Valley Civilization and it’s Discovery        The Early age of Indian history starts  with the birth of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC),  also known as Harappan Civilization. The Indus River Valley Civilization, 3300-1300 BCE, also known as the Harappan Civilization, extended from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India. The Indus Valley was home to the largest of the four ancient urban civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China.   In 1856, British colonial officials in India were busy monitoring the construction of a railway connecting the cities of Lahore and Karachi in modern-day Pakistan along the Indus River valley. As they continued to work, some of the labourers discovered many fire-baked bricks lodged in the dry terrain. There were hundreds of thousands of fairly uniform bricks, which seemed to be quite o...