K Dr. Ravindra N. Singh CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDV Professor, Department of AIHC & Archaeology Deputy Coordinator(CAS) & Bananas Hindu University Principal Investigator (India) Varanasi-221005, India BHU-Cambridge Project in Archaeology Ph. No.;(0542), 6702111 ema//s:ravl [email protected] [email protected] Dairy The Superintendent CFWIS No:- Dated; 3 T' August, 2020 c/o The Principal Secretary, Archaeology & Museums, Government of Haryana, St/L Art and Design Building, Sector-10, Chandigarh-160011 ^4/7 Subject: : Application for Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani, HaryaflS'xJ^^^

Dear Sir, m

Please find enclosed herewith the application for the Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani, ■ Haryana during the Field Season 2020-2021 for the kind approval and NOG by the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Haryana..

Another set of the application has been sent io\The Director (EE), Archaeological Survey ofIndia, Government ofIndia, 24 Tilak marg. New Delhi- 110001 for the kind considerations of the Standing Committee of the Archaeological Survey of India.

In this context, I would like to bring to your kind notice that same proposal was approved by your Department and the ASI but work could not be undertaken due to to

Covidl9. I request you to forward your kind approval & NOG to the Archaeological Survey of India at your earliest.

Yours sincerely;, R.- Nb- (E.rpf,,R,N.Singh

- Professor & Deputy Coord/nafor(CASJ j Centre of Advanced study | Bhiwani, Haryana. Sanaras Hindu University. I H

APPLICATION FOR CARRYING OUT EXPLORATION I EXCAVATION AT' ^ AREAS OTHER THAN PROTECTED FOR[THE FIELD SEASON 2020-21 1. Name of the Pfoject {Exploration/ Excavation): Excavations at Khanak. Bhiwani 2. Name and address of the applicant t (Enclose Brief Profile) Brief C.V. attached. (If the application Is on behalf of an institution, the name thereof should be given) Prof. Ravindra Nath Singh, Director, Department of A.i.H.C. & Archaeology, BHD Dr. Vikas Kumar Singh, Co-Director, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU In Collaboration with Haryana State Department of Archaeology & Museums

3. Name of the site: ® Khanak Locality: Tosham District: Bhiwani ^ State; Haryana

Lat: 28°54'13.00" N; Long: 75''52'05.99" E 4. Details of previous studies/Brief report on work, if any

The Khanak has been excavated on limited scale under direction of R.N. Singh;-Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University with the financial support from the Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India, New Delhi during the session 2013-2014 & 2015-2016 {lAR, 2013-2014 & lAR, 2015-2016) ,

During our limited excavations of three weeks during field season 2013-2014 only five trenches were laid down Wz.: A-i, A-2, A-3. A-4 & A-5 at different places in the School ground. All trenches except A-5 were quite productive having Early & Mature Hafappar^ cultural materials. A-5 was a recent filling of earth. Maximum.cultural deposit was 1.50 m.' Although we could not dig up to the natural soil, but an appreciable range of cultural materials were recovered belonging to Early Harappan & Mature Harappans.

I The most common material recovered was fragments of fired ceramic vessels of various types. Aniongst the antiquities, steatite beads figured highest in number (more than 200), but there were also a range of other small finds including copper celt,.TC cakes (idly shaped & triangular), beads of semi-precious stone including lapis lazuli and large number of slag showing metallurgical activities in the vicinity. • I During our excavations in the field season 2015-2016, sixteen trenches were laid down wz.: A-01 to A-16. in addition, a Section Cutting Trench B-01 was exposed quite near to Khanak Hills in the area of recent mining. Amongst the above mentioned trenches. Trenches A-01, A-02, A-03, A-04 & A-05 which were excavated during field season 2013- 2014 have been re-opened for further digging. A site plan was also prepared utilizing Total Station Survey with courtesy of the University of Cambridge. All trenches except A-5- were quite productive having Early & Mature Harappan cultural materials. A-5 was a recent filling of earth. In order to assess the extension of the site, a section was exposed quite close.to Khanak hills in recent mining area named as Trench B-01 which was also quite productive having both Early & Mature Harappan cultural materials suggesting a cluster of other settlements at different places in entire Khanak village. Maximum cultural deposit was 2.65 m. A six-rooms complex of Early Harappan Period along with a gallery running in Trenches A-01/A-05, 06, 08, 11,12,13, 15 and 16 were exposed.

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Khanak appears to have been occupied in the Early Harappan, and early and late Mature Harappan phases. Lohari Ragho I appear to have been occupied in the Eariy Harappan. and early Mature Harappan phases, but somewhat surprisingly we have a iate Mature date from L.511. L.564 is eariy Medieval, and there is a modern date. Masudpur appears to have been occupied in the late Mature Harappan phase (earlier phases dated previousiy), and we have a modern date.

Considering AMS dates from Khanak showing metaliurgicai activities since Early Harappan period, we intends to take a few trenches in mining area where we have done a section scrapping during 2015-2016 in order to recover evidence of metaiiurgical activities.

5. Project statement and objectives, time frame, Our Preiiminary study of the siag suggests that the region would have been an important resourcearea for many verities of metais. minerais. stones (procured from Aravaiii hiils) and must have provided much needed functionai trade routes faciiitating the smooth flow of trade items from one place to another. j

I The prime objective of the proposed smali scale excavation is to assess the cultural materials of Early Harappans and Mature Harappans particularly in the context of the exploitations of stone and minerals. Kochar has reported the mining of tin in this region of Aravallis and Randall Law has postulated that a few of the Harappan stones have been exploited from this part of haryana. Hence it is being proposed to: a. Carry out further excavations at Khanak to establish complete cultural sequence, obtain datable material for Radiometric dating (AMS),| b. Collect different geological & mining samples for provenance study, 0. Collect archaeobotanical and archaeozoological materials, d. Collect soil samples for phytollth study and OSL dating; e. To construct furnaces and mining activity areas at the site, if any; f. To explore ancient mining area in the vicinity.

6. Extent of the proposed excavation or operation (A plan of the site In triplicate showing in red outline the extent of the proposed excavation or operation to be attached) Khanak is in imminent danger of being destroyed by agriculturai and occupational activities.. We intend to carry out focussed excavations in order to characterise the sequence of occupation at the site and collections of samples. This will comprise of a few 5 x 5m targeted trenches designed to identify the depth of deposit in different areas.

Time Frame: Excavations work will be undertaken between October, 2020 to February, 2021.

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7. Approximate expenditure and the anticipated funding Expenditure: Rs.600,000/, Rs. 200,000/ through support from Project Funds along with funds from the Department. Rest of amount is anticipated from the Government funding agencies. The expenses for AMS dating and scientific studies may be met out from other sources.

8. Composition of the team Dr. R.N. Singh Director/Excavator - Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHD, Dr. VIkas K. Singh Co- Director, Excavator, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Dr.R.P.Singh Archaeologist/Excavator, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Dr. P.P.Joglekar Deccan College, Rune j Dr. D.P.Singh Research Assistant, Lab.,Departmentof A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Mr. A.K. Pandey Draftsman/Surveyor, Depakmentof A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Prof. Amar Singh Archaeologist, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana Dr. Vikas Pawar Archaeologist, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana Dr. Appu Sharan Student Archaeologist, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana Dr. Narendra Pramar Archaeologist, Central University Haryana. Dr. Amit Ranjan Student Archaeologist, Department of AiHC & Arch., BHU. V Dr. S. Chakradhari Student Archaeologist, Deparitment of AIHC & Arch., BHD Dr. Aftab Alam Student Archaeologist, Deparitment of AIHC & Arch., BHU Shri Sunil K Singh Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU Km. Arati Chaudhary Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU Shri Bri] Mohan Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU Shri Abhay P Singh Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU Km UrvashI Singh Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU #Further collaboration with the Deccan College, Rune and BSIP, Lucknowwill be made for archaeozoological and archaeobotanical studies after excavations.

For details of experience, please see separate sheet.

9. Collaborator, If any I am currently collaborating with the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge which may provide me the opportunity for the scientific studies of the materials through the Departments of Geography and Geosciences at Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College London, NT Kanpur and the RLAHA at Oxford.

10. Plan for the preservation and maintenance and proper scientific storage of excavated remains and material. Approximate Expenditure and Funding After the excavations, trenches will be backfilled to prevent accidents and to preserve the archaeological remains. The cultural material recovered from the site will be stored in the archaeological work space at BHU, thus making it accessible for researchers. Our Department is fully equipped. No funding is required.

11. Provision for proper scientific storage of the excavated materials and photo I drawing documentation { As noted above, the cultural material recovered from the site will be stored in the archaeological work space at BHU, thus making it accessible for researchers. Botanical, zoological and soil samples will be stored in a suitable manner, and systematic analysis will be taken out by the collaborators and their students. All registered cultural and ceramic material will be photographed and/or drawn, and these images will be used for publication.

12. Stage of submission of the report(s) on exploration (s)I excavation(s) taken up by theappllcant I Institution I

The status of the reports on previous exploration/excavation are as follows: Year Name of the site 2008 Alamgirpur— report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2008 2008 Bulandkhera- report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2008 2009 Masudpur I - report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2009 2009 Masudpur VII (season 1)- report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2009 2009 Explorations in Rakhigarhi Hinterland, Inbian Archaeology: A Review in 2009 2010 Masudpur VII (season 2)-report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2010 2010 Burj - report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2010 2010 Explorations in Ghaggar Hinterland Survey, Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2010* 2011 Dabli vas Chugta - report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2011 2012 Bahola - report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2012 2013 Ganeshwar— report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2013 2014 Explorations in Rakhigarhi Hinterland Survey,//7d/an Archaeology: A Review in 2014 2014 Khanak— report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2014 2015 Lohari Ragho submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2015 2016 Khanak— report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2016 2017 Lohari Ragho submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2017 2018 Masudpur I submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2018 2019 Masudpur I submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2018

The following PhD research projects have developed out of this work: ✓ V Completed Yama Dixit(Gates) - Palaeoclimate in India (Earth Sci)(Cantab 2009 - 2013) Sayantani NeogI - geoarchaeology bn the Haryana Plains (Cantab 2009 - 2013) I Jennifer Bates - Indus archaeobotany (Cantab 2011-2015) Penny Jones - Indus climate and isotopes (Cantab 2012-2017) Manisha Singh, Harappan Legacy in Ganga Valley, 2013. Vibha Pandey, Archaeology of Northwest India, BHU, 2016 Amit Ranjan-Archaeology of Ghaggar River Basin, BHU, 2019. On-going Danika Parikh - Indus Civilisation pottery in NW India (Cantab 2010-present) Akshyeta Suryanarayan - Indus Civilisation residues (Cantab 2015-present) Alene Gieshe - Indus palaeoclimate (Cantab 2016-present) Jean-Phillipe Boudain - Indus weather modelling (Cantab 2016-present) Joanna Walker - Indus geoarchaeology (Cantab 2016-present) Alessandro Ceccarelii - Indus ceramic production (Cantab 2016-present) Arti Chaudhary- Archaeology of in the hinterland of Rakhigarhi, BHU.

Stage of publication of final reports Final reports of our limited excavations at Alamgirpur, Masudpur I, Masudpur VII, Burj, Dabli vas Chugta, Bahola, Khanak and Lohari Ragho are under preparation.

Preliminary and more developed analysis of the results ofourfieldwork have been reported in following publications:

2019 Parikh, D. and Petrle, C.A. 2019."We are inheritors of a rural civilisation': rural complexity and the ceramic economy in the Indus Civilisation in northwest India, World Archaeology 50.5: 1-21 [online 18 June, DOI: httDs://doi.orq/10.1080/00438243.2019.16014631. 2019 Petrie, C.A., Orengo, H., Green, A.S.. Walker, J.R., Garcia, A., Conesa, F., Knox, J.R. and Singh, R.N. 2019. Mapping archaeology while mapping an empire: using historical maps to reconstruct settlement landscapes In India and Pakistan, Geosc/ences 9.1:11 (1-26) [online first 25 December 2018; https://doi.ora/10-3390/aeosciences90100111. 2019 Green, Adam 8., Hector A. Orengo, Aftab Alam, Arnau Garcia, Lillian M. Green, Francesc Conesa, Amit Ranjan, Ravindra N. Slnghand Cameron A. Petrie, Re-discovering ancient landscapes: archaeological survey of mound features from historical maps in northwest India and implications for investigating the large-scale distribution of cultural heritage sites in South Asia, Remote Sensing, in press. 2018 Dixit, v., Hodell, D.A., Glesche, A., Tandon, S.K., G^zquez, F., SainI, M.S., Skinner, L, Mujtaba, S.A.I., Pawar, V., Singh, R.N. and'Petrie, C.A. 2018. Intensified Indian summer monsoon and the urbanization of the Indus Civilization In northwest India, Scientific Reports 8:4225 [online first 09 March 2018; doi: httPs://doi.ora/10.1038/s41598-018- 22504-51. 2018 Green, A.S. and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Landscapes of urbanisation and de-urbanization: integrating site location datasets from northwest India to Investigate changes in the Indus Civilization's settlement distribution, Journal of Field Archaeology 43.4: 284-299 [online first May 11, 2018; httDs://doi.orq/10.1080/00934690.2018.14643321. 2018 Orengo, H.A. and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Multi-Scale Relief Model(MSRM): a new algorithm for the analysis of subtle topographic change in digital elevation models. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43.6: 1361-1369 [online first 14 December 2017; httPs://doi.orq/10.1002/esp.4317: impact factor 3.697]. 2018 Pawar, V., Singh, R.N., and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Harappan settlement pattern on the desert margin with special reference to Hanumangarh District, Indian Journal of Archaeology 3.3: 20-30. 2018 Singh, R.N, Petrie, C.A., Pandey, A.K., Singh, D.P., Singh, V.K. and Singh, M. 2018, Recent excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani, Haryana-2016: A Harappan site in northwest India, Bharati 40: 15-25. | 2018 Singh, R.N., Green, A.S., Green, L.M., Ranjan, A., Alam, A. and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Between the Hinterlands: Preliminary Results from the TwoRains Survey in Northwest India 2017, Man and Environment 43.2: 84-102. 2018 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., Alam, A. Bates, J. Ceccarelii, A., Chakraborty, S., Chakradhari, S., Chowdhary, A., Dixit, Y., French, C.A.I., Gieshe, A., Green, A.S., Green, L.M., Jones, P.J., Lightfoot, E., Pandey, A.K., Pawar, V., Ranjan, A., Redhouse, D.I., Singh, D.P., 6 y Suryanarayan. A., Ustunkaya, M.C. and Walller, J.R. 2018, Living In the hinterland 1: survey and excavations at Lohari Ragho 2015-2017, Puratattva 48: 130-141. 2017 Bates, J., Petrie, C.A., and Singh, R.N. 2017.! Approaching rice domestication in South Asia: new evidence from Indus settlements in northern India, Journal of Archaeological Science 78; 193-201 [doi: httD://dx.doi.orQ/10.1016/i.ias.2016.04.0181 2017 Bates, J., Petrie, C.A. and Singh, R.N. 2017. Cereals, calories and change: exploring approaches to quantification in Indus archaeobotany. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences [online first httD://dx.doi.ora/10.1 Q07/s12520-017-0489-21. 2017 Bates, J., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. 2017. Exploring Indus crop processing: combining phytoliths and macrobotanical analysis to consider the organisation of agriculture in northwest India c.3200-1500BC, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (special issue) 26"25-41 [published online 21 May 2016; doi: http://dx.doi.orQ/10.1007/s00334-016-0576-

2017 French, C.A.I., Sulas, F. and Petrie, C.A. 2017. Expanding the wider potential research parameters of geoarchaeology: case studies from Aksum in Ethiopia and Haryana in India, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences onWne first, March 16, 2014 rhttD://dx.doi.orQ/10.1007/s12520-014-0186-31. 2017 Joglekar, P.P., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. 2017. Faunal Remains from Sampolia Khera (Masudpur I), Haryana, Indian Journal of Archaeology 2A \ 25-60. 2017 Parikh, D. and Petrie, C.A. 2017. Urban-rural dynamics and indus ceramic production in northwest India: a preliminary analysis of the pottery from Masudpur 1 and Masudpur VII, in Lefevre, V., Didier, A. and Mutin, B. (ed.). South Asian Archaeology 2012: Man and Environment in Prehistoric and Protohistoric South Asia: A/ew Perspectives. Indicopleustoi, Brepols, Turnhout: 221-241. 2017 Petrie, C.A. 2017. Crisis, what crisis? Adaptation, resilience and transformation in the indus Civilisation, in Cunningham, T. and Driessen, J. (eds) Crisis to Collapse: The Archaeology of Social Breakdown, Aegis Publications, UC Louvain: 43-64. 2017 Petrie, C.A. and Bates, J. 2017. 'Multi-cropping', intercropping and adaptation to variable environments in the Indus Civilisation, Journal of \A/orld Prehistory 30: 81-130 [httD://dx.doi.ora/10.1007/s10963-017-9101-z1. 2017 Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N., Bates, J., Dixit, Y., French, C.A.I, Hodell, D., Jones, P.J., Lancelotti, C., Lynam, F., Neogi, S., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Pawar, V., Redhouse, D.I., Singh, D.P. 2017. Adaptation to variable environments, resilience to climate change: investigating Land, Water and Settlement in northwest India, Current Anthropology 58A: 1-30 rhtto://www.iournals.uchicaQO.edu/dol/full/10.1086/6901121. 2017 Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N., French, C.A.I., Bates, J., Lancelotti, C., Neogi, S., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Pawar, V. and Redhouse, D.i. 2017. Land, Water and Settlement in northwest India 2008-2012: a review of progress, in Lefevre, V., Didier, A. and Mutin, B. (ed.). South Asian Archaeology 2012: Man and Environment in Prehistoric and Protohistoric South Asia: New Perspectives, Indicopleustoi, Brepols, Turnhout: 243-255. 2016 Bates, J. and Petrie, C.A. 2016. Phytolith analysis and the Indus Civilisation: a review, Man and Environment 61.2: 32-49. 2016 Joglekar, P.P., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. 2016. A Preliminary report of animal remains from Bhimwada Jodha (Masudpur VII), Haryana, Bharatl39:1-9. 2016 Petrie, C.A., Bates, J., Higham, T. and Singh, R.N. 2016. Feeding ancient cities in South Asia: dating the adoption of rice, millet and tropical pulses in the Indus Civilisation, Antiquity 90.354:1489-1504 [doi: httDs://doi.orQ/10.15184/aqv.2Q16.2101. 2015 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., et al. 2015. Excavations at Masudpur, Hissar District, Haryana: April 16 - May 12, 2009, BHU and University of Cambridge Archaeological Project, Indian Archaeology: A Review 2000-2009: 55-71: 2015 Dixit, v., Hodell, D.A., Sinha, R. and Petrie. C.A. 2015. Oxygen isotope analysis of multiple, single ostracod valves as a proxy for combined variability in seasonal temperature and lake water oxygen isotopes, JoPL 53: 35-45. [online 11 October 2014, httD://dx.doi.ora/1Q.1007/s10933-014-9805-31. 2014 Dixit, v., Hodell, D.A., Sinha, R. and Petrie, C.A. 2014. Abrupt weakening of the Indian summer monsoon at 8.2 kyr B.P., EPSL 391: 16-23 fhttD://dx-doi.orq/10.1016/i.eDsl.2Q14.01.026]. 2014 Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A. and Petrie, C.A. 2014. Abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon in northwest India ~4100 year ago, Geology 42: 339-342 fhttD://dx.doi.ora/10.1130/635236.11. 7 ■C 2013 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.P., Joglekar, P.P., Neogi, S., Lanceiotti, C., Pandey. A.K. and Pathak, A. 2013. Recent Excavations at Alarrigirpur, Meerut District: A Preiiminary Report, Man and Environment 38.1: 32-54. I 2013 Singh, R.N. Petrie, C.A., Bates, J., Joglekar, P.P.. Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Singh, V.K. and Singh, D.P. 2013. Survey and excavations at Bahola, District Kama!, Haryana: A Preiiminary Report, BhSratT37\ 27-37. District, Rajasthan, Puratattva A2:133-147. 2013 Singh, R.N^, Cameron A. Petrie, Pramod P.Joglekar, SayantaniNeogi, CarLancelotti,Arun K. Pandey SAnubha Pathak' Recent Excavations at Alamgirpur, Meerut: APreiiminary Report, Man & Environment, XXXViii(l), 2013, pp. 32-54 2012 Singh, R.N., Petrie, G.A., French, G.A., Bates, J., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Lanceiotti, G. and Redhouse, D.i. 2012. Survey and excavations at Dabii-vas Ghugta, Hanumangarh. 2012 Singh, R.N., Petrie, G.A., J. Bates, A.K. Pandey, D. Parikh and D.P.Singh, Survey andExcavations at Bahola, Karnai District, Haryana: March 27-April, 17, 2012, Manaviki- Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. ii! (2)-iV (1), pp.5-11. (iSSN 0975-7880), Varanasl. 2012 Singh, R. N., Petrie,G.A., G.A.i.French and D.I.Redhouse, Geoarchaeologicai Survey and Unearthing Cultural Assemblages at Dabli vas ChugtaBharati, Vol. 36, pp. 57-71. 2011 Petrie, Cameron, Ravindra Singh & Charles French, Land, Water and Settlement: Dabli Vas Ghugta, Archaeology at Cambridge, Annual Report McDonald institute of Archaeological Research, Cambridge, 33. 2010 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., French, C.A., Neogi, S., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D. and Pawar, V. 2010. Geoarchaeologicai survey and excavations at Burj, Fatehabad, Haryana, Puratattva,AO: 94-101. 2010 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., Pavi^ar, V., Pandey, A.K., Neogi. S., Singh, M., Singh, A.K. Parikh, D. and Lanceiotti, C. Changing Pattern of Settlement in the rise and fall of Harappan Urbanism and beyond: A Preiiminary Report on the Rakhigarhi Hinterland Survey 2009, Man & Environment, 35.1: 37j53. 2009 Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N. and Singh, A.K. Investigating Changing Settlement Dynamics on the Plains: The 2009 Survey and Excavations at Masudpur (Hissar District, Haryana), Purattava, No.39, 38-49. 2009 Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. Lost rivers and Life on the Plains- Approaches to understanding Human Environment interaction between the Collapse of Indus Urbanism and the rise of Early Historic Cities, SaraswatI RIver-A Perspective (Ed. A.R.Chaudhri), Kurukshetra, 102-111. 2009 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A. Singh, A.K. and Singh, M. Excavations at Masudpur (Hissar, Haryana): A Preiiminary Report, Bharati, Vol. 33, 35-49. 2009 Petrie, C.A. and Singh, R.N. Land, Water and Settlement in Haryana, India, Archaeology at Cambrldge:2009, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, 29. 2009 Singh, R.N., Singh, A.K. and Petrie, C.A. Excavations at Alamgirpur, Meerut, India, paper presented at Workshop on UKIERI's Land, Water and Settlement Project, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, June, 2009. 2009 Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. Land, water and Settlement; Environmental Constraints and Human responses in Northwest India between 2000BC to 300BC, Environment of Ancient India, Monograph No.21, AIHC & Archaeology, BHU, Varanasi (eds. P.N. Singh etal.), 105-108. 2008 Petrie, C.A. and Singh, R.N. Investigating cultural and geographical transformations from the collapse of Harappan urbanism to the rise the great Early Historic cities: a note on the Land, Water and Settlement Project, South Asian Studies 24: 37-38. 2008 Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. An Archaeological and Geographical Reconnaissance of western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana: April 4- 15 and May 21, 2008, Bharati 32: 1-15. 2008 Singh, R.N. Petrie, C.A., et a!. Settlements in Context: Reconnaissance In western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, April and May 2008, Man and Environment 33.2: 71-87.

Preliminary and more final results have also been presented at the following workshops, conferences and invited lectures (2018 onward only):

2019 Conference presentation - Bates, J., Singh, R.N., and Petrie, C.A. A view from the villages: disentangling 'multi-cropping', agricultural adaptation and resilience in the Indus Civilisation, IWGP, Lecce, 03 June -V 2019 Conference presentation - Ustunkaya, M.C., Wright, N., Singh, R.N., and Petrie, C.A. Environmental choices of Indus populations,/IVGP, Lecce, 03 June | 2019 Conference presentation - M. Cemre Ustunkaya, Nathan Wright, Andrew Fairbairn. Ravindra Nath Singh, Cameron A. Petrie, A comparison of the 4.2k BP event from Indus River Basin to Centrai Anatolia, 4.2 ka BP in Anatolia: The Crisis Years and Aftermath, University ofYa§ar, Izmir, 17-18 May. 2019 Conference poster-M.C. Ustunkaya, N.Wright, R. N. Singh, C.A. Petrie, At the fringe of indus civilisation: what can we iearni about indus people at Khanak, Lohari Ragho I and Masudpur I through macro-botanical remains? UKAS 2019, Manchester, 24-26 April. 2019 Conference presentation - Angourakis, A., Bates, J., Baudouin, J.-P., Giesche, A. Ustunkaya, M.C., Wright, N., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. "Don't put ali your eggs in one basket": modelling cropping strategies and ciimate change in the Indus Civilisation, CAA 2019, Krakow, 23 April. 2019 Conference presentation - Green, A., Alam, A., Green, LM., Ranjan, A., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. intensifying extensive survey: a digital workflow for rapidly assessing ancient settlements across large geographical areas, CAA 2019, Krakdw, 23 April. 2019 Conference presentation - Durcan, J., Thomas, D.S.G., Pawar, V., Sharan, A., Gupta, S., Orengo, H.A., Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A. Holocene landscape dynamics of the Ghaggar-Hakra fluviai system, India: implications for the indus Civilisation, "Geoarchaeological records of human-landscape interaction: from a nature-dominated world to the Anthropocene", EGU 2019, Vienna, 7-12 Aprii 2019 Workshop presentation - A. Angourakis, J. Bates, J.-P. Baudouin, A. Giesche, M. Cemre Ustunkaya, N. Wright, R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, How to 'downsize' a complex society: experiments with agent-based models to assess the resilience of Indus Civilisation settlements to ciimate change,"Socio- Environmental Dynamics over the last 15.000 Years: The Creation of Landscape Vl", International Open Workshop, Kiel, 11 16 March. 2019 Workshop presentation - Adam S. Green, S. Dixit, K. Garg, S. Neelaram S., G. Singh, K. Vatla, A.Whitbread, M.K. Jones, R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, What makes water management strategies resilient? An integrated, holistic and comparative approach to applying lessons from the past to India's agriculture, "Socio Environmental Dynamics over the last 15.000 Years: The Creation of Landscape Vl", International Open Workshop, Kiel, 11-16 March. 2019 Conference presentation-A. S. Green, S. Dixit, V. Kamal, D. Murthy, S. Neelaram, G. Singh, A. Whitbread, M.K. Jones, R.N. Singh, and C.A. Petrie. Tanks and towns: an exploration of different paths toward sustainabiiity in ancient South Asia, Empires and Kingdoms of Dakshipapatha with Special Reference to Telangana, Third International Seminar, Hyderabad, 19-20 January. 2018 Conference presentation -Suryanarayan, A., Cubas, M., Craig, 0., Heron, C., O'Connell, T.C., Singh, R.N., Shinde, V. and Petrie, C.A., What's cooking in the Indus Civilisation?, 8th Intemational Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology ISBA 2018, Jena, 18-21 September. 2018 Conference presentation - Suryanarayan, A., Cubas, M., Craig, 0., Heron, C., O'Connell, T.C., Singh, R.N., ShInde, V. and Petrie, C.A., Organic residue analysis as a routine method in archaeology? Opportunities, Avenues and Challenges, European Association for Archaeology Conference, Barcelona, Spain 2018 Conference presentation - C.A. Petrie, R.N. Singh, A. Aiam, J. Bates, J-P. Baudouin, A. Ceccarelli, S. Chakraborti, S. Chakradari, A. Chowdhury, Y. Dixit, C.A.I. French, A. Garcia, A. Giesche, A. Green, L. Green, D. Hodeil, P.J. Jones, E. Lightfoot, S. Neogi, H.A. Orengo, A.K. Pandey, D. Parikh, V. Pawar, A. Ranjan. D.I. Redhouse, D.P. Singh, A. Suryanarayan, M.C. Ustunkaya, and J. Walker, From Land, Water and Settlement to TwoRains: progress in 2016, 2017 and 2018, at the Twenty-fourth Intemational Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Green A., A. Ranjan, L. Green, A. Alam, R.N. Singh, and C.A. Petrie, Urban and post-urban intensities: archaeological signature landscapes of northwest India, at the Twenty-fourth Intemational Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Suryanarayan A., Heron. CJ, Craig, 0., Cubas, M., Singh, R.N., Shinde, V., O'Connell, T.C. and Petrie, C.A. "What's cooking?" Using ceramic residue analysis to investigate cooking practices in Indus northwest India, at the Twenty-fourth Intemational Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Lightfoot E., P.J. Jones, T.C. O'Connell, P. Joglekar, R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, A comparison of animal management practices at Indus sites in Haryana using stable isotope analysis, at the Twenty-fourth Intemational Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Ustunkaya, M.C., R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, Indus farming on the desert margins: archaeobotanical evidence from Khanak, Bhiwani, Haryana, India, at the Twenty-fourth Intemational Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - J. Bates, R.N. Singh, K.D. Thomas and C.A. Petrie, Life on the edge: food diversity, choice and resilience along the borders of the'Indus Civilisation, at the Twenty-fourth Intemational Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 - Conference poster - J. Walker, C.A.i. French, H. Orengo, V. Pawar, A. Giesche, R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, Burled Indus landscapes: using geoarchaeology to assess human-environment interactions at Lohari Ragho, northwest India, at the Twenty-fourth Intemational Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 - Conference poster - A. Ceccarelli, P. Quinn, R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, From rural ceramic production to communities of practice: a technological reassessment of Indus ceramics from NW India, at the Twenty-fourth International Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Invited presentation - Suryanarayan, A., Gubas, Wl., Craig 0., Heron, 0., O'Connell, T., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. What's cooking in the Indus Civilisation?, Shared Tastes Conference, Leiden University, Netherlands, 28-30 June 2018 Invited presentation - Bates, J., Garcla-Granero, J.J., Petrie, C.A., Singh. R.N., Madella, M. and Ajithprasad, P. Cultural Unifier, Local Staple or Exotic Luxury? Food as Material Culture in the Indus Civilisation, South Asia c.3200-1500 BC, Shared Tastes Conference, Leiden University, Netherlands, 28-30 June 2018 Invited presentation - Suryanarayan, A., Cubas, M., Craig, 0., Heron, C., O'Connell, T.C., Singh, R.N., Shinde, V. and Petrie, C.A., What's in the pot? Characterising natural substances in archaeology through lipid and isotopic analyses, London Biological Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group, British Museum, London 2018 Invited presentation - Petrie, C.A., Green, A.. Orengo, H., and Singh, R.N., Hidden in plain sight: reconstructing landscapes ofurbanism in northwest India, 12 April, SAA Conference, Washington DC, 11-15 April.

13. Any other information The same proposal was approved by the Standing Committee of the ASl, Govt. of India following the NOG from the Haryana State Archaeology & Museum vide letter No. T- 17011/40/2019-EE dated 17.03.2019 but due to lockdown because of Covid 19 the work cannot be started.

14. I declare that the above Information is correct. I also undertake to observe the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 and the rules made there under.

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My name is Zakir khan. I am student of AIHCA. In Ancient Indian history & Archaeology at Pt. Ravishankar Shulda University Raipur,Chhattisgarh, India. Sir/Madam I want to came and attend Excavation who conduct by your department. I m very interested in field Archaeology. My future work is far^d on it. Sir/Madam could you please allow to me participate in the excavation. I will be obliged if you allow me to participate in excavation Training.

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I Zakir Khan

Behind Sri Ram Store P.S.City Road Near Dhelabai Hostal Ring Road No.1 P+O-SundarNagar Raipur C.G.492013

E-mail:- [email protected] Objective

To work in organization where my knowledge and skills are utilized for the progress of organization. In the best possible way and to be known as a person with commitment and integrity.

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1) Father's Name : Md. Sultan Khan

2) Mother's Name : Mrs. Shahin khan

3) Date of Birth : 24"=^ Jan. 1989

4) Languages Known : English/ Hindi/ and Local mother language

5) Nationality : Indian

6) Gender : Male

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C.G. JET 2012 Qualified

M.A.- Ancient Indian history culture & Archaeology -3-

- Pt.R.S.U. Raipur C.G.

• M.A.- Sociology -1®' Division - Dr.C.V.Raman Unl. Bllaspur C.G.

• Graduation - B.A. (History) 2"^ Division - Pt.R.S.U. Raipur C.G.

• PGDCA - Post graduation diploma in computer - A+

Work Experience / Seminar / Workshop / Interns

1) Intern under Prof. K. Krishnan sir of Training in ceramic analysis of 23

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2) Filled Experience in 15 Days Rajim Excavation Under director Shri Arun Kumar Sharma sir.

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Please find enclosed herewith the brief of the discussions held during the meeting at 2.30 PM on 12th June, 2019 at Conference Room, Central Secretariat Library, Shastrl Bhawan, New Delhi under the Chairmanship of Secretary (Culture). Ministry of Culture. Government of India. Shastri Bhawan. New Delhi to discuss on issues related to Indus Valley / Harappan Civilization for kind information and perusal. x

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1. Prof. B.B. Lai. former Director General, AS!, F-7, Hauz Khas Enclave, Hauz Khas, New Delhi. Email: bra)basi©gmajl.com 2. Dr. K.N. Dikshit, General Secretary. Indian Archaeological Society. B-17, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi-110016.(Email: [email protected]: [email protected]) Z. Dr. R.S. Bisht. Retd. Jt.DG (ASI), 9/19, Sector-3, Rajendra Nagar. Loni Road. Sahibabad, District Ghaziabad-201005.(Email: [email protected]) 4. Dr. B.R. Mani, Director General, National Museum, Janpath, New Delhi (Email: [email protected], 5. Dr. Amarendra Nath; former Director. ASI, 11/872, Vasundhara, Ghaziabad-201012 (Email: [email protected]) 6. Prof. V.S. Shinde, Vice Chancellor & Director (Archaeology), Department of Archaeology, Deccan College, Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune.-411006. (Email: [email protected]; [email protected])' 7. Dr. P.P. Jogiekar, Department of Archaeology. Deccan College, Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune-411 006.(Email: pram][email protected]) 8. Prof. Manmohan Kumar (Held.), MD University. Flat No.B-303, Imperial Residency, Peer tvluchalia, Zitakpur, Sahibzada Ajil Singh Nagar (SAS Nagar), Punjab 140603. (Email: [email protected]) 9. Dr. R.N, Singh Professor, Dept. of AIHC & Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University. Varanasi- 221005.(Email: [email protected]) 10. Dr. K.S. Saras^vat, 4/221, Vivek Khand, Gomati Nagar. Lucknow-226010 [Email:[email protected]] 11. Dr. Urmila Sant, Additional Director General (Archaeology). Archaeological Survey of India, Dharohar Bhawan. 24 Tilak Marg. New Delhi-110001 12. Dr. S.K. Manjul. Director. Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, Red Fort. Delhi-110006 13. Ms. Nandini Bhattacharya. Regional Director (East), Archaeological Survey of India, Kolkata (West Bengal) 14. Dr. Banani Bhattacharya. Directorate of Archaeology & Museums. Government of Haryana, Art & Design Building, Sector-10, Chandigarh - 160011 (Email id:- [email protected], [email protected])

Copy for information and necessary action to: 1. PPS to the Secretary (Culture). Government of India, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. 2. PPS to the Director General. ASI. Dharohar Bhawan, 24 Tilak Marg. New Delhi. 3. PS to JS (ASI), Ministry of Culture, Shastri Bhawan. New Delhi. 4. PS/PA to Add!. DG (Arch). Jt.DG (EE), Jt.DG (Conservation), ASI, 24 Tilak Marg, New Delhi. BRIEF OF DISCUSSIONS OF THE MEETING OF THE EXPERTS TO DISCUSS THE ISSUES ON INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF SECRETARY (CULTURE), MINISTRY OF CULTURE ****** Date & Time: 2.30 PM on 12.06.2019 Venue: Central Secretariat Library, Sastrl Bhawan

A meeting of the experts to discuss the issues on Indus Valley Civilization / Harappan Civilization was held under the Chairmanship of Secretary (Culture), Ministry of culture, at 2.30 PM on 12"^ June 2019 In the Conference Room, Central Secretariat Library, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. The list of participants is at Annexure-I. The Secretary (Culture), Ministry of Culture welcomed the scholars and officers and shared his views regarding the Indus Valley Civilization based on his recent visit to Harappan site of Rakhigarhi in Haryana. The Secretary (Culture) also informed on the letter of Prof. B.B. Lai on the issues related to conservation of Kalibangan and asked the scholars to deliberate on it. The Secretary (Culture) emphasized on the necessity to impart the knowledge on recent findings of this civilization to the younger generation and the public in large. This is due to the fact that several recent discoveries at sites like Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi and Dholavira have brought to light new facets of this civilization. He further emphasized on the need to evolve methodologies and strategies on the conservation techniques adopted for such excavated sites, methods to showcase the findings to create awareness, and the necessity to include the recent findings in the school textbooks so that the younger minds learn about the civilization from the school days onwards. In this regard, the Secretary (Culture) stressed the need to initiate a dialogue with various state governments, NCERT, Ministry of Human Resources Development and other educational institutions to properly place the recent findings, their new perspectives for the understanding of our glorious past, so that they are included in the curriculum of various courses, degrees and other educational needs. The need for creating various mechanisms to spread awareness on the facets of Harappan Civilization was also stressed upon by the Secretary (Culture), which may include popular publications, short films, documentaries that can also be hosted in the website. In this regard. Dr. R.S. Bisht highlighted on the documentary prepared by Archaeological Survey of India in collaboration with Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) in 2000 coinciding with an exhibition titled Four Great Civllzations of the World, which became very popular due to several features of VR included in reconstructing the ancient Harappan city of Dholavira. Dr. Bisht further explained on the developments took place at Dholavira during 2003 aimed at creating a centre for research, exhibition and interpretation of Dholavira for the scholars, students and public alike. He proposed that similar facilities can be created for the sites of Kalibangan and Rakhigarhi, two other prominent sites of Harappan civilization. The Secretary (Culture) indicated that based on the recent research, which has thrown several new perspectives, a concept paper may be prepared and circulated to all concerned departments, educational institutions for including them in the curriculum. In this regard, when the Secretary (Culture) requested for participation in this exercise, Dr. R.S. Bisht agreed to prepare a concept paper with the assistance of Director (EE), ASl. The Director General, ASI informed the gathering of scholars on the recent initiatives of ASI in creating awareness and also the measures taken for conserving the important sites like Dholavira, Kalibangan and Purana Qila. The Director General, ASI asked the Director(EE) to make a presentation on the Harappan Civilization. The various aspects of the Harappan Civilization was introduced and the Secretary (Culture) again emphasized that the information shown In the presentation is largely unknown to the general public regarding the recent revisions in chronology, technology, ornaments, ceramics, burial practices, trade contacts with Mesopotamia and several other facts. He once again reiterated the necessity to create a dialogue among other institutions like NCERT, UGC and UPSC to include these recent discoveries and perspectives in their curriculum. The information to be passed on should be written in a simple language so that the common public can understand and' shall avoid technical terms. The Secretary (Culture) also informed that the story telling of several specimen of art, architecture and other features shall be created in order to link them with their creation, technology, craftsmen, context and importance in the context of Harappan civilization. This will help in weaving a larger perspective for the consumption of general public, who can appreciate them in a wider context. Exhibitions may also be organized showcasing different technologies and lives of the Harappans explaining the facts in a simple language for the benefit of the public. At the end of the presentation, the Secretary (Culture) requested the scholars to put forth their views and suggestions one by one. Prof. Vasant Shinde, for Vice Chancellor, Deccan College, Rune highlighted on the necessity of participation of the public and to devise strategies to attract more people to understand and appreciate the civilization. There is a necessity to highlight the contribution of the Harappans in the modern context as they were expert civil engineers, and many technologies have their origin during the Harappans, which needs proper highlighting and reach to the public. The government may Involve the experts in this field to create mechanisms aimed at making the public In large to understand the various aspects of this civilization and to appreciate Its contribution for several generations of civilizations, even up to the modern day. A first step in this regard will be to have an in house discussion in the form of a workshop or a seminar to discuss various issues and finalise the recent discoveries in the right perspective before placing them before the public. Dr. K.N. Dikshit, former Jt. DG, ASI also emphasized the incorporation of all recent findings in the school curriculum and also to involve the students of universities in spreading awareness of the civilization. The antecedents of this civilization along with the knowledge we have gathered on its demise shall also have to be properly placed before the public. There is also a necessity to provide enough legal protection for a large number of Harappan sites in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Western U.P. which are facing destruction and levelling due to developmental pressures and agricultural expansion facilitated by Irrigation networks. Once the sites are protected and even acquisition is initiated in important Harappan sites, a select few may be developed as tourist destinations for imparting awareness among the public. A dedicated laboratory may be developed for carrying out multi-disciplinary studies on the artefacts, ceramics r

and other samples discovered form the Harappan sites in order to conduct a science based post-excavation analysis and research. This laboratory can be created in the new campus of PDDU Institute of Archaeology and sufficient technical posts created as this is possible only by Archaeological Survey of India and state governments are not properly equipped for initiating such an exercise. Dr. R.S. Bisht, former JDG, ASI highlighted the following points: a) Rakhigarhi, Haryana, one of the five largest Harappan cities in the sub continent and the largest one in India, having multipartite character as is shown by a group of mounds belonging to the civilization, but as yet an integrated form of the whole city including the outlines of each individual mound is not yet clear, although the Harappan were multi-planners and architects. In order to realize the said objective, if a limited excavation is conducted for about two field seasons, we may get far better picture of the integrated whole that the site conceals. Most significantly, Rakhigarhi has given strong evidence of antecedent phases as weii. In order to understand that, the most ideal site is that of Arada (RGR 6), about 300 m to the west of main Harappan mounds. Here, there are seemingly two conjoined mounds, which hold promise of providing immense data to understand for the precedent time period(s).

b) Binjor, Rajasthan, the. only the second industrial site (the other being Nageshwar, Gujarat) so far excavated in the sub-continent, although much evidence has already been available there, yet a fuller picture is still a desideratum.

c) To select a few sites, which hold promise of yielding antecedent and successive cultures of the Harappan Civilization in order to show the continuum for the sake of further field investigations. Of late, it has been ciaimed by some scholars that the early habitations of the Sarasvati valley as early as 5'%'^ millennium BGE, purely on the basis of radiometric dates (some of the protagonists of this view are here in the meeting, K.N. Dikshit, B.R. Mani), albeit such old dates are at present not compatible with adequate amount of archaeological deposits and records.

d) Complete survey and documentation of protohistorlc sites in the northern (Rajasthan. Punjab, Haryana, J&K and western U.P.) and southern zones (Gujarat and parts of Rajasthan, M.P." and Maharashtra) of Harappan civilization. It is necessary because the rapidly growing reclamation of land for agriculture, urbanization, development works and industrialization have already taken a toll on a very large number of important sites and the activities will continue in the future.

e) For thorough documentation of the sites latest field survey techniques including drone, remote sensing are to be employed f) For analysis of archaeological materials, establishment of dedicated scientific laboratories is imperative and, ASI should take the lead as no other organization, whether state governments or universities are financially or otherwise strong enough to do that. The areas of scientific and technological investigations include archaeometallufgy, archaeobotany, archaeozoology, anthropology, geoarchaeology, ceramic analyses, and others. Relevant to that would be cleaning and preservation aspects as well.

g) Needless to say that 25 acres of land that the ASI had purchased for Institute of Archaeology will suffice to have ail dedicated facilities. The only problem will arise is for positions for experts and technicians. For that, it may be mentioned at the inception of the institute of Archaeology in 1986, 45 posts were created, most of which were for expert faculties. Unfortunately, ail of them, but for Director of the rank of ADG have lapsed for not filling the positions. The same may be revived now. Some amount of money will be required for investment for purchasing equipment and scientific instruments and supporting technicians.

Dr. Man Mohan Kumar, former Professor, MD University, Rohtak emphasized on the spread of several new facts about the civilization, the River Sarasvati, baked bricks used in the civilization among the public, media alike. Further, seminars I workshops need to be organized to delve on various aspects of the civilization. Interpretation centres can be built up at the important sites for creating further awareness. He also highlighted the need of protection of sites which are facing destruction and requested the larger role of ASI. Shri Amarendra Nath, former Director, ASi Indicated on the several possibilities of identification of various elements of the civilization including the stones, metals and other raw materials used by the Harapans, how they were exploited and traded over larger distances. There is also a need for mapping them in order to arriving at a correct perspective. The research on various aspects of the Harappan civilization needs to be augmented and well supported by the ASI and several aspects need to be standardized for the benefit and interest of the scholars and public alike, eg. Chronological framework, nomenclature like early, mature and late / post Harappan and expanding and updating the studies on Indus script. Dr. Nath also requested for facilities for the report writing work for which DG, ASI assured that the matter is being looked Into and Dr. V.N. Prabhakar Is already looking into the issues of creating a facility in the PDDU Institute of Archaeology. Dr. Banani Bhattacharya, Dy. Director, Dept. of Archaeology & Museum, Govt. of Haryana raised the Issue of permission of Rakhigarhi Museum for which the Director General. ASI informed that the Haryana government needs to obtain the proper permission from the National Monuments Authority. . Prof. P.P. Joglekar, Deccan College, Pune highlighted on the need for having interactive sessions / workshops wherein experts on Harappan civilization can share the recent knowledge and highlight the present state. This workshop may involve various stakeholders like educators, school and college curricula makers, state governments and media. The topics that can be discussed include the following: 1. General spread and extent of the civilization in relation to other then contemporary civilizations 2. Chronology, settlement patterns and nature of life 3. Origin and relation of Harappans with other Chalcolithic cultures 4. Economy and nature of State 5. Crucial Harappan sites in details, e.g. Dholavira, Rakhigarhl etc. 6. Animal usage and husbandry practices 7. Plant food and agriculture 8. Harappan script and religious beliefs 9. Decline of the Harappan civilization

The presentations by experts can be recorded and proceedings published in order to spread them to a larger audience. Further, such workshops can be conducted at four or five destination all over India instead of only in the northwestern part of India. The Director General, ASI asked Shri Janhwij Sharma, JDG (Cons)to inform about his visit to Kalibangan, Bhatner Fort, Karanpura and Hisar Fort. Shri Janhwij Sharma, JDG (cons) informed that he inspected these places along with Dr. V.N. Prabhakar, Director(EE and Publication) recently and indicated on the several strategies formulated for Kalibangan including detailed surface documentation, providing canopies of select excavated portions and to open up certain areas for showcasing them to the public along with a detailed circulation plan. As the Secretary (Culture) had to leave for a meeting, the Director General, ASI delivered the concluding remarks to initiate a dialogue among the experts in Harappan archaeology and also to organize a seminar in the month of August 2019 in the PDDU Institute of Archaeology to formulate future course of action. The Director General, ASI also requested Dr. Bisht and Dr. V.N. Prabhakar to prepare the concept note on the recent findings as desired by the Secretary (Culture). The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair. ANNEXURE-I List of members participated in the meeting on Indus Valiey / Harappan Civilization 1. Shri Arun Goel, Secretary (Culture), Ministry of Culture, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. 2. Smt. Usha Sharma, Director General. Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. 3. Shri Pranav Khullar, Joint Secretary (ASI), Ministry of Culture, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. 4. Dr. K.N. Dlkshit, General Secretary, Indian Archaeological Society. B-17, Qutab Instltutlonai Area, New Delhi. 5. Dr. R.S. Bisht. Retd. Jt.DG (ASI), 9/19, Sector-3, Rajendra Nagar, Loni Road, Sahibabad, District Ghaziabad. 6. Dr. Amarendra Nath, Former Director, ASI, 11/872, Vasundhara, Ghaziabad. 7. Prof. V.S. Shinde, Vice Chancellor & Director (Archaeology), Department of Archaeology, Deccan College, Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune. 8. Dr. P.P. Joglekar, Department of Archaeology, Deccan College, Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune. S. Prof. Manmohan Kumar (Retd.), MD University, Flat No.B-303, Imperial Residency, Peer Muchalla, ZIrakpur, Sahlbzada Ajit Singh Nagar (SAS Nagar), Punjab. 10. Dr. Urmlla Sant, Additional Director General (Archaeology), Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. 11. Shri Janhwij Sharma, Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. 12. Dr. M. Namblrajan. Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. 13. Dr. S.K. Manjul, Director, Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, Red Fort, Delhi. 14. Dr. V.N. Prabhakar, Director (EE), Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi 15. Dr. Banani Bhattacharya, Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, Government of Haryana, Art & Design Building, Sector-10, Chandigarh. ^ 11-

Ds>:'v^'' No. F. 19-332/20]9-NM (EC) — \5-3^ ■■ '. Government of India Vi^rffK V Ministry of Culture 7 ^ iVf"?- i^T ' National Museum Janpath, New Delhi XvT^-'i

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Deputy Director Directorate of Archaeology & Museum Govt. of Haryana Art & Design Building, Sector-10, Chandigarh, Pincode-160011, / Subject: Exhibitions of Excavations at Kunal, District Fatehabad, Haryana in National Museum, New Delhi

Madam, With reference to the subject cited this is to inform that National Museum is willing to organize the proposed exhibition. However, it is not possible to hold the exhibition in July 2019. V/e therefore, proposed the exhibition to be organized at National Museum in late August 2019. You are requested to kindly share the concept note and the lisfs of objects for further necessary action to be initiated from our end. This issues with the approval of Director General^National Museum.

Yours faithfully,

M (Arakhita Pradh^)' Dy. Curator (Exliibition) APPLICATION FOR CARRYING OUT EXCAVATION AT AREAS OTHER THAN PROTECTED FOR THE FIELD SEASONS 2019-20 (Sites other than centrally protected)

Name of the Project (Exploration / EXCAVATION AT TIGRANA Excavation) DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF HARYANA JANT-PALI, MAHENDERGARH HARYANA-123029 Name and address of the applicant Dr. Narender Parmar (Enclose brief profile) Department of History and Archaeology (If the applicant is on behalf of an institution, Central University of Haryana the name thereof should be given) Jant-Pali, Mahendergarh HarYana-123029 Name of the site TIGRANA, Locality TRN-1 District Bhiwani District, State Haryana. Lat Long (28°53'25.9" N and 76°08'08.8" E) Details of previous studies / brief report on Annex r attached work Carried out by the applicant during last field season on the proposed site / area, if any

Project statement and objectives, time-frame I. Understanding the cultural sequence and chronology of the site. II. Determining the regional identity of Harappan in the region.

Extent of the proposed excavation or 1. Horizontal and Vertical excavation operation(A plan of ihe site in triplicate showing in red outline the extent of the proposed excavation or operation to be attached) Approximate expenditure and the anticipated Rs. 3,00,000 (Rs. Three lacs only) funding Composition of the team No Designation Nos. 1. Site Supervisors 2 Staff from Central University of Haryana 2. Trench Supervisors 6 Students from Central University of Haryana 3. Surveyor 1 Central University of Haryana 4. Draughtsman 1 Central University of Haryana 5. Photographer 1 Central University of Haryana 6. Archaeobolanist 1 Deccan college, Pune 7. Anthropologist 1 Deccan college, Pune 8. Archaeo Zoologist 1 Deccan college, Pune 9. Archaeo Chemist 1 Deccan college, Pune vx A

Geologist 1 Deccan college, Pune

Col aborator, if any No Plan for the preservation, maintenance and Archaeo Botany Lab proper scientific storage of excavated remains Archaeo Zoology Lab and material. Archaeo Chemistry Lab Storage in Central University of Haryana Archaeology Museum Repository Provision for archiving photo, drawing and I. High resolutions SLR Digital other Documentation materials pertaining to cameras with laptops and photo- excavation / Exploration editing software's and photo- printers. II. Latest digital Total Station with software and Global Positioning System (GPS)for surface survey, contour, levels, depths of the trenches and digital/manual drawing of the structure, trench, Stratigraphy and features. in. On site lab for botanical, chemical and zoological sample analysis. IV. On site lab for Pottery and Antiquity drawing and analysis.

Stage of submission of the report(s) on previous exploration (s) / excavation(s) taken UD bv the aDolicant / institution Year Name of the site Stage of publication of report 2015-16 Tigrana Published in the first week of November

Anv other infonnation —

I declare that the above information is correct. I also undertake to observe the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 and the rules made

thereunder.

Station Signature of the applicant (If the application is on behalf of an institution, the signature should be that of the head of the institution, which term includes the Registrar of a University) Ab

Date; Signature of the Registrar Central University of Haryana

Seal of the institution

Name of institution: Central University of Haryana, Jant-Pali, Mahendergarh, Haryana, India.

Recommendation of the State Government, Haiyana Curriculum Vitae

• Name: Dr. Narender Parmar

o Date ofBirth: 10"' January 1983 • Address: Department of History and Archaeology, Central University of Haryana Jant-Pali, Mahendargarh Haryana423029, INDIA.

E-mail: [email protected]

• Educational Qualifications:

9 Master of Arts (M.A.) in History from Maharishi Dayanand

University, Rohtak, Haryana Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshera, Haryana 9 Post-Graduation Diploma in Archaeology (P.G.D.A) from Institute of Archaeology, Red Fort, Delhi. 0 P11.D. in Archaeology from Deccan Collage Post Graduate and

Research Institute, Pune

• Designation:

" Assistant Professor in Department of History and Archaeology

• Research Specialization: South Asian Protohistory, Field Archaeology and Settlement System

• ' Research Experience: 8 years

9 Number of Conferences Attended: 15 • Number of Papers Presented: 14

• Number of Papers Published: 21 • Professional Memberships 03 • Excavation Experience

1. Participated in the excavation at Bhirrana (Harappan Site) District Fatehbad, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. L.S. Roa, Febuary, 2006. 2. Participated in the excavation at Chaturbujnathnaia (Prehistoric Site), District Mandsaur, M.P. under the supervision of Dr. Giriraj Kumar, December, 2006 3. Participated in the excavation at Juaffardih (Early Historicai Site), District Naianda, Bihar, under the supervision of Dr. S. C. Saren, January-Febuary, 2007. 4. Participated in the excavation at Girawad (Harappan Site), District Rohtak, Haryana, under the supervision of Dr. V. S. Shinde, March 2008. 5. Participated in the excavation at Farmana (Harappan Site), District Rohtak, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. V. S. Shinde, December-Febuary, 2008-2009. 6. Participated in the excavation at Manheru (Harappan Site), District Bhiwani, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C.Thakran and Dr. Amar Singh, Febuary-March, 2009. 7. Participated in the excavation at Masudpur (Harappan Site) District Hissar, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. N. Singh and Dr. Cameron Petrie, Apiri-May, 2009. 8. Participated in the excavation at Badii (Harappan Site), District Jhajjhar, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C.Thakran and Dr. Amar Singh, September- Octember, 2009. 9. Participated in the excavation at Mahem (Harappan Site), District Rohtak, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C.Thakran and Dr. Amar Singh, January-March, 2010. 10. Participated in the excavation at Karsola (Harappan Site), District Jind, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. V. S. Shinde and Dr. P. B. S. Senger December-April, 2010-2011. 11. Participated in the excavation at Lohat (Harappan Site), District Jhajjhar, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C.Thakran and Dr. Amar Singh, April, 2011. 12. Participated in the excavation at Lohat (Harappan Site), District Jhajjhar, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C. Thakran and Dr. Amar Singh, March-April, 2012. 13. Participated in the excavation at Ganeshwar (Ganeshwar-Jodhapura Site), District Siker, Rajasthan under the supervision Dr. R. N. Singh, March-April 2013.

Expioratlon Experiences: ® Carried Archaeogicai explorations (Village to Village Survey) in Bhiwani district, Haryana (Feb-March 2008, Juiy-Aug 2009 and Oct-Nov 2011). As result of this compreehensive survey 516 sites were explored and 400 sites are newly discovered. • Participated in the exploration and tour programmes of archaeological sites and monuments in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Gujarat. Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bangal, Utter Pradesh, Uttranchai, West Bangai, Tamiinadu, Orrisa and Goa (2006- 08) conducted by the institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, 2006- 08. • Participated in the explorations programme in the Ghaggar basin (2006) carried out by Prof. Vasant Shinde, Deccan College, Pune. • Participated in the explorations programme of the Harappan sites in the Gujarat (2008) conducted by the institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi. • Participated in the explorations programme of the Harappan sites in the Western Uttar Pradesh (April 2009) carried out by Dr. R. N. Singh (B.H.U.) and Dr. Cameron Petrie (Cambridge University). • in order to have proper regional understanding of the Harappan civilization of Sarsawati/Ghaggar river, the survey the ail excavated sites were visted and some new sites were discovered (2009-2010). Participated in the explorations programmes (Village to Village Survey) In Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan (Oct-Nov,2009 and Aug-Sep 2010). During the exploration 571 sites were visited and most of the sites were newly discovered. Participated in the explorations programmes at the site of Rakhigarhl (international project), Hisar District, Haryana,(Jan 2012- Mar 2012) under the supervision of Prof. Vasant Shinde, Deccan Coilege, Pune. Participated in the explorations programmes at the site of Daimabad, District Ahmadnagar, Maharasrtra, (Jan 2013) for the understanding of the extent of the Harappan Civilization. Participated in the explorations programmes (Village to Village Survey) in Mansa District, Punjab (June-July, 2013). Above the 150 archaeological sites were visited during the explorations and moslty sites were newly discovered. Participated in the explorations programmes (Village to Village Survey) in Sangrur District, Punjab (Aplrl-May 2014). During the exploration 200 archaeological sites were visited.

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12/17/2019 Archaeological Excavations and Epigraphical Studies

Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Culture 06-August-2013 17:02 1ST Archaeological Excavations and Epigraphical Studies

The Minister of Culture Smt. Chandresh Kumari Katoch has said that the details policy adopted by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)for archaeological exploration & excavation and epigraphical studies are as below:

1. Complete Information: The applicants must supply complete information in the prescribed Performa to be placed - below the meeting of the Standing Committee (SC)of the Centra! Advisory Board of Archaeology (CABA). 2. Proposal from.Institutions: The applicant made on behalf on an institution shall be signed by the Head of the Institution and in the case of Universities by the Professors or other Staff and forwarded by the vice Chancellor/Registrar of the University in the absence of which It will not be considered for approval. 3. Separate Proposals: Separate proposals must be submitted for excavations at different sites. Proposals mentioning more than one site will be summarily rejected. A. Location of the site: complete location with maps and details of the site including name of ancient mound/site, locality village /town district and state along with geo-coordinates. A proposal with sketchy location is liable to be summarily rejected. 5. Previous exploration and excavation: Excavation should be taken only if necessary and as the last step in the process of field study. Salvage excavation or chance discoveries may be permitted as an exception. 6. Purpose of excavation: Every excavation should have a specific purpose. If the purpose can be understood by other means without excavation priority should be accorded to them, Emphasis should be given to problein-oriented investigations. -' ^ 7. Area of excavation: No permission to excavate in any area can be granted and it is essential that the area of excavation (shown in ted outlines) be clearly defined. 8. Duration of excavation: Specific time frame for the excavation shall be planned, which shall help in preparing a national calendar of excavations. 9. Funds for excavation: No permission if sufficient funds unavailable. Funds earmarked for report writing also. Request for funds (as matching grant) to ASI if sufficient funds not available. 10. Director of excavation: Each site will have only one Director with enough field experience. Barring exceptional circumstances, which are to be recorded in writing Director of the excavation shall not be changed. 11. Equipments and Staff: Applicant should have sufficient trained staff and instruments required for the proposed excavation or else the proposals in liable to be turned down. 12. Collaboration: Role of various collaburative agencies should be well defined. The Director shall be from the Indian side and the foreign collaborator shall be the Co-Director. No archaeological samples shall be sent outside the country for analysis without approval of Director General, ASI. 13. Publication of excavation' reports: Publication of report mandatoiy, time allotted for submission of report is five years. Permission to future proposals subject to submission of all earlier reports. 14. Brief Annual Report: It Is mandatory to submit a brief annual report of the last seasons work. In case of ongoing work permission to be given on the basis of brief annual report. <^^1 Approval of State Governments: No permission shall be given to Universities/Research institutions without the No I Objection Certificate (NOG)/approval of their respect State Archaeological Department. 16. Recommendations to be Recorded & Conveyed; The minutes of the SC of CABA to be recorded and decisions to be conveyed to the applicants. ' i 17. Number of Excavations: No applicant to be allowed more than two excavations in a field season. 18. Explorations; There is an urgent need to promote exploration on an extensive scale as to facilitate recording of new ■ sites. State Deparlinents to be instructed to take up Village-to-Village survey Village /Mandal Panchayats should be encourage to report findings of antiquarian remains in their respective revenue limits. 19. Catalogues of Antiquliics; The institutions applying for exploration/excavation shall prepare period and site-site registers/catalocues of all funds and National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities be monitoring those

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Policy for Epiaraphical Survey

Epigraphy Branch conducts Epigraphlcal survey, copies the inscriptions, deciphers them and publishes the gist in its Annual Report on Indian Epigraphy and publishes the texts in other epigraphical publications like South Indian Inscriptions, Epigraphies Indica, etc. Whenever, the Epigraphy Branch gets any information on newly discovered inscriptions either from Excavation Branch of ASI or any State Govt. Agency, immediate action is taken to copy and decipher them.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today Smt. Katoch said, the details of the exploration / excavations carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India (AS!) during the last three years and the current field season where the inscriptions were recovered are enclosed at Annexure-I.

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Dear Sir, With reference to your proposal on the above mentioned subject, it is to inform you that the Standing Committee of CABA has recommended the said proposal but before Issue of permission letter, Recommendation/NOC is required from Government of Haryana. You are requested to submit the same at the earliest. THIS IS NOT A VALID PERMISSION LETTER. Director (Exploration & Excavation), Archaeological Survey of India, Dharohar Bhawan 24 Tilak Marg, New Delhi 110001

Phone: 011-23004510

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Excavation at Tigrana (2016), Bhiwani District, Haryana: A Preliminary Report

Introduction Tigrana village of Bhiwani district, Haryana is located about 7 km north of Bhiwani city on the Bhiwani - Jind road. A Harappan site (28° 53' 25.9" N and 76° 08' 08.8" E) is located in the revenue jurisdiction of the village which is locally known as Rurki wala Khera. It is situated about 3 km north of Tigrana village to the left of the crossing of Bhiwani-Jind road and the Sunder canal. It was reported by Suraj Bhan in mid-sixties of 20th century as a Late Siswal and Late Harappan site (Suraj Bhan 1975). Later in 1999, the site was explored by Surender, an M. Phil student of M.D. University, Rohtak who recovered the remains of Mature and Late Harappan culUire (Surender 1999). In 2008, the site was visited by the first author and reported its cultural sequence as Early Harappan, Mature Harappan and Late Harappan (Parmar 2008). In recent years, most of the part of this site has been removed for the agriculture purposes and the surface of the remaining part has been damaged by saltpetre collectors. However, the original area of the site measures about 10 hectares and about 2.5 metres in height.

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The Site and its Environment The Tigrana site occupies an intermediary place between the Indo-Gangetic plain and the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. It is located in the southern part of the Indo-Gangetic plain, which is generally flat, well known for cultivation and the topography unit is marked by the termination of distributaries of the Western Yamuna canal system. The desert is not so far from the site and it is marked by clustered with sand dunes of varying shapes and sizes (Thussu 2006). The outline of Aravalli hills of this region are very well known for varieties of ores and minerals, stones and metals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, quartz, quartzite, flexible sandstone and limestone etc.(Heron 1917, Thussu 2006). The hydrography of the study region is not that much clear. A depression of natural channel can be clearly seen in southern side of the site. The channel is identified near the Chang, Mitathal, Ghuskani, Tigrana and Premnagar villages. It is approximately 300 metre in width and completely gets filled with rainy water in the rainy season. Along the course, a big chain of the Harappan settlements is seen such as Kalinga-I, Chang-I, Chang-II, Chang-III, Mitathal, Tigrana-I, Tigrana-Il, Jatu Luhari-I, Sui, Baliyali, Dhang Khurd-1, Dhang Khurd-11, Bhurtana-1, Bhurtana-II and Alakhpura etc. in the Bhiwani District (Parmar 2013). We also find mention of the river Kausiki which flowed south of.the Drishadvati river. This river flowed between Rohitaka (present Rohtak) and the Drishadvati river and joined the Drishadvati near Hansi region (Dukhi 1986: 21-23). This fact also gets support from the location of the Harappan settlements most of which are located on the bank of this stream.

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Objectives of Excavation Tigrana is one of the important Harappan settlements in the upper Saraswati basin. It is located on the southern periphery of the alluvial plain (Fig 1). There is no doubt that the alluvial plain of the upper Saraswati basin evince extensive presence of Harappan settlements. The region of the upper Saraswati basin provided the fertile land for surplus »-•.- ' •*. \,

production of wheat and barley which was the main base of subsistence economy. Nevertheless, as we move away from the fertile region and enter into the dry area of sand dunes (Thar Desert) and Aravalli outcrops, they become- sparse especially in southern Haryana. The Tigrana site is located between the alluvial plain of Saraswati basin and sand- dune area of.Thar Desert. Questions which need to be answered are: why the large and important Harappan settlement at Tigrana developed in this especial zone (Southern Haryana). For this research problem, a team of the Department of History and Archaeology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh has conducted excavations at Tigrana site with the following objective > • A view of tracing the nature of Tigrana site • Exposing the regional identity of Harappans • Understanding the culture sequence and chronology.

Cultural Sequence The site was divided into horizontal grids having standardised zone A, B, C and D. In the season (2015-16), only seven trenches of 5x5 metre (A1,B1,C1,D1,E1,F1 and FAl) were opened and out of which we could reach up to the nature soil in only one trench (Fl). Here, the maximum cultural deposit was found 2.10 meter (3.20 meter from reference point) from surface. On the basis of the ceramic assemblage and other cultural material obtained during the excavations, the cultural deposit of the site can be divided into three periodsrsuch as'the Early Harappan, Mature Harappan and Late Harappan periods. Period-I: Early Harappan Culture The information regarding Early Harappan culture is coming from trench Fl. The.cultural material of the Early Harappan culture is quite similar to the Sothi-Siswal phase.' Only'twd lots (22 and 23 of trench Fl) highlight the characteristic featureSi.of-.Sp.thLSiswal ceramic tradition. The stmctural remains could be identified by six courses of'mud'brick wall Just above the natural soil. The wall was running from northwest to southeast direction and the mud bricks measure 30x20x10 cm with the ratio of 3:2:1. A number of terracotta bangles, steatite beads and.copper objects are recovered from this period. The ceramic assemblages of the Early Harappan period are comprised of dull red to light colour, wheel-made, well-fired, rnedium to thin fabric, fired to grey or red core and painted with black colour. A few sherds are decorated with incised designs on the interior with sharp ridges of various patterns. The main motifs noticed on this pottery include horizontal and vertical lines, zigzag patterns and loop designs. The painted designs are found over the red slip, generally at rim, neck and shoulder portions. Two complete miniature pots with horizontal bands on neck are recovered from this period. Generally, the Early Harappan ceramic assemblages are divided into red, grey and buff wares. The red ware is found in the large quantity while grey and buff wares are found in limited number. The red ware (98%) is the combination of dull red ware (26.45%), simple red ware (24.94%), burnished red ware (15.49%), black on red ware (13.07%), rim (8.35%), red slip ware (7.14%), mud applique ware (0.90%) and rusticated ware (0.50%). A few sherds of grey ware (0.80%) and buff ware (0.10%) are also found during the excavation. The main shapes of the Sothi-Siswal phase include dish-on-stand, dish, globular vase, basin,jar, bowl and storage jar etc. / 0

Table-1: Early Harappan Ceramic Assemblages

S.N. Ceramic Classification Quantity Percentage

1. Rim 83 8.35

2. Black on red ware 130 13.07

3. Red ware 248 24.94

4. Dull red ware 263 26.45

5. Burnished red ware 154 15.49

6. Red slip ware 71 7.14

7. Chocolate slip ware 9 0.90

8. Grey ware 8 0.80

9. Rusticated ware 5 0.50

10. - Mud applique ware 9 ■0.90

11. Base 7 0.70

12. Other 7 0.70

Total 994 100

Period-II: Mature Harappan Culture Without any stratigraphical break, the Early Harappan culture successfully evolved in the Mature Harappan culture. Because of limited excavation, not a single evidence of structural activities was found in this period. The Mature Harappan ceramic assemblage of Tigrana can be divided into two groups. The first group belongs to the classical Harappan ceramic which is well fired, medium fabric and treated with red slip. The classical shapes introduced in the Mature Harappan period for the first time include beaker, perforated jar, beaded rim vase, nail headed rim dish, re-curved base dish-on-stand, projected rim shallow dish-on-stand, pointed base vase, storage jar with wide mouth etc. The painting is usually found over the red slipped surface in black colour. The second group is associated with the Sothi-Siswal ceramic tradition. It is continuing along with the classical Harappan ceramics in this period. The ceramic assemblage of this group has medium to coarse fabric, well fired, wheel made and treated with light to dull red slip. The main shapes include out-curved rim vase or jar, loop handle vase, beaked rim storage jar and flaring or flat rim bowl with tapering sides, etc. The painted designs are quite similar as are found on the classical Harappan ceramic. The Tigrana site has revealed mostly the characteristic feature of Sothi-Siswal ceramic assemblage during the Mature Harappan period. The ceramic assemblage of Mature Harappan culture is recovered .from lot no. 20 and 21 of trench Fl. The red ware (27.90%) is found in large quantity, while dull red ware (21.93%), burnished ware (14.72%), red slipped ware (13.90%) and black on red ware (10.60%) are found in usual range. A number of sherds of chocolate slip ware (2.26%), grey ware (0.51%), black slipped ware (0.41%) and incised ware (0.20%) also occurred during the excavation. Table-2: Mature Harappan Ceramic Assemblages

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1. Rim 69 7.10

2. Black on red ware 103 10.60

3. Red ware 271 27.90

4. . Dull red ware 213 21.93

5. Burnished red ware 143 14.72

6. Red slipped ware 135 13.90

7. Chocolate slip ware 22 2.26

9. Black slipped ware 4 0.41

10. Grey ware 5 0.51

11. Incised ware 2 0.20

12. Base 2 0.20

13. Other 2 0.20

Total 971 100%

Period-Ill: Late Harappan Culture The site played an important role as regional centre during the Late Harappan period. The lots no. 1 to 19 of trench F1 show the linear changes in the Late Harappan tradition. However, other lots of trenches Al, Bl, Cl, Dl, and El also exposed the features of Late Harappan ceramic assemblages. The structural remains include mud-brick (4;2:i) walls, hearth and hara which were encountered in trench F-1. Two burnt bricks were also found near the hearth. Another mud brick wall was found in trench Dl. The antiquities belonging to this period consist of bangles of faience and terracotta, terracotta animal figurines, wheels, balls and beads of semiprecious stones and pastes (agate, carnelian, steatite, faience and terracotta). Faience antiquities were found in huge amount. Nearly 90 present bangles are found of faience. An animal figurine made of faience is one of the important find of this period. In addition, the raw material and slags of faience are also recovered from this period. Thus, there is no doubt that Tigrana site was an important centre for the production of faience objects during Late Harappan period. Most of the ceramic assemblage is heavier and has medium to thick fabric. The dish on stands with drooping rims, storage jars with beaded or collared rims, elongated neck vases and short stand of dish on stands are more popular in this period. The main shapes include vases, bowls, storage jar, basin, dish, bowl on stand and dish on stand with various types of drooping, collared, flaring, flanged and flaring oblique cut rims. The pottery of this period has mostly geometric designs painted in black over red surface including horizontal and vertical bands, zigzag patterns, loop designs, etc. Out oTthe total ceramic assemblage 25.59 % is dull red ware which is dominating ceramic industry of this period. In addition, 22.30% red ware, 14.29% burnished red ware, 12.79% red slipped ware, 9.38% black on red ware, 2.70% chocolate slip ware, 1.29% rusticated ware, 0.13% grey ware and 0.16% incised ware are found during the excavation. A number of sherds of perforated Jar, reserved slip ware, graffiti ware, hand-made pottery, burnished grey ware, and buff ware are also recovered in the Late Harappan levels. Table-3: Late Harappan Ceramic Assemblages

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1. Rim 1050 9.87

2. Black on red ware 997 9.38

3. Red ware 2371 22.30

4. Dull red ware 2720 25.59

5. Burnished red ware 1519 14.29

6. Red slipped ware 1360 12.79

7. Chocolate slipped ware 287 2.70

8. Black slipped ware 25 0.23

9. Rusticated ware 138 1.29

10. Incised ware 18 0.16

11. Handle 12 0.11

12. Grey ware 14 0.13

13. Base 99 0.93

14. Other 18 0.16

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Cultural Material In additional to the ceramic assemblage, a good number of ornaments and tools are also recovered from the site. A total number of 439 objects are recovered from all the three period of Harappan culture. The local production (faience and terracotta) predominated at the site. The faience objects are more popular and found in the form of bangles, beads and figurine. Light blue to sky blue coloured faience bangles of various types are found having squarish, circular and rectangular sections and heart shaped with different types of designs. The red colour terracotta bangles were dominated however, a few examples of grey coloured bangles are also found. The beads of terracotta, steatite, faience and semi-precious stones have been recovered during the excavations but semi-precious stone beads are found in meagre number. Three terracotta animal figurines, wheels, hopscotches, cakes, balls, copper objects (arrow head, knife and antimony-rod) and different types of stone objects (querns, pestles, pounder and balls) are the other important antiquities recovered from the site. Only one specimen of ■bone point and a stone weight is also found during the excavation. A mutilated but decorated faience animal figurine is also an interesting finding from the site. Faience Manufacturing Activities The south-eastern part of the Tigrana site had been occupied by the craftsmen and they were involved in the production of faience bangles. The evidence of faience furnace is discovered on the surface of trench FAI (Fig: 19). The shape and size of this furnace is almost disturbed by the saltpetre collectors. However, it is perfectly circular in plan and red in colour. A large number of faience slags, stones (may be used for faience), terracotta cakes and faience bangles are found nearby this flimace. It is clearly indicate that people were involved in the .procurement of the faience objects. The distribution of faience bangle is also shows an interesting picture of the site. Not a single fragment of faience bangle is found during the Early Harappan culture. The first evidence of faience bangles are coming from Mature Harappan period. Nevertheless, the terracotta bangles continued to exist in the good-number. The quantity of faience bangles has a better representation in the Late Harappan period compared to the earlier period. The market and production centre of faience items also took place at Tigrana site. Definitely, after the manufacturing stage, these faience objects were also exported to other contemporary settlements. It seems that the faience manufacturing activities during the Late Harappan period played a very important role in connecting the different settlements with each other.

Table-5: Distribution of Bangles

Culture Faience Bangles Terracotta Bangles

Early Harappan Culture 00 100%

Mature Harappan 17% 83% Culture

Late Harappan Culture 90% 10% 3

Chronology The earliest cultural ■ material of Tigrana is quite similar to Mitathal-I, Farmana-I and Manheru-I (these sites are situated coseby to Tigrana). The archaeologists suggest more suitable term for this period is Sothi-Siswal phase. The chronology of this phase goes back to the range between 3200-2600 BC. The Sothi-Siswal phase can be divided into two phases: Early Siswal (Siswal A) and Late Siswal (Siswal B)(Suraj Bhan 1975). The features of the early farming community (Hakra phase) continued in the Early Siswal phase (Siswal A), while Late Siswal (Siswal B) represents a stage of development and expansion of this phase. There is no doubt that the earliest cultural material of Tigrana is related to the Late Siswal phase. In addition, two C" dates are also available from the Mature Harappan period of Mitathal (Mitathal-IIA) which provided the time period 2288 BC (PRL-290) and 1961 BC (PRL-291) (Possehl 1999:705). No any C" dates are available from Mitathal-1 period (near about 0.75 meters deposit). Therefore, the beginning of early occupation (Sothi-Siswal phase) at the Tigrana site can be accepted near about 2800 BC (in the late stage of Sothi-Siswal phase). The stratigraphical evidence of Tigrana site has amply shown the cultural transformation without any break from the Early Harappan culture to Mature Harappan culture and Late Harappan culture. During the Late Harappan period, the site had thick cultural deposit and played an important role as regional centre. Hence, the chronology of Tigrana may be assigned between C. 2800 BC to C. 1400 BC.

Discussion The first settlers at Tigrana site can be identified as the Early Harappan people (Sothi-Siswal Phase). The evidences of the first farming community (Hakra culture) are totally absent at the site. However, the excavations of Kunal, Bhirrana, Girawad, Farmana and Khanak are showing the presence of the first farming community in the region. The Sothi-Siswal phase is ■the representative of the advanced village society. The cultural phase has provided evidences of wide varities of typical ceramics, miscellaneous objects including figurines, beads, bangles, wheels and toy-carts. The proliferation of writing, weights, measures, seals and sealings are witness of significance of this period. During the MaUire Harappan period, the site continued to survive in the rural condition and revealed characteristic features of Sothi- Siswal phase and elements generally associated with Mature Harappan culture were limited in number. However, the classical Harappan elements were also recovered which include beaker, perforated jar, goblets, beaded rim vase, nail headed rim dish and pointed base vase etc. The external trade also seems to have declined in the Late Harappan period which resulted into popularity of local produces. A few specimen of carnelian, lapis lazuli and agate beads were recovered from this period. The presence of large number of faience objects during this period indicates that this was the most preferred material and was gradually replacing objects made of semiprecious stones. The manufacturing activities, raw material, finished and unfinished faience objects clearly indicate that Tigrana site played a significant role in the manufacturing of faience objects.

References Dukhi, Lila Dhar 1986. Saraswati Nadi (Hindi). Delhi: Raj Publishing House. Heron, A. M. 1917. The Geology ofNorth-Eastern Rajputana and Adjacent District. Memoirs ofthe Geological Swvey ofIndia XLV (I): 1-128. Parmar, Narender 2008. Recent Explorations ofthe Bhiwani Block. District Bhiwani (Haryana). P.G.D.A. Dissertation. Delhi: Institute of Archaeology, Red Fort. Parmar, Narender 2013. Protohistoric Investigations in the Bhiwani District ofHaryana. Ph. D. Thesis. Pune: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute.

Possehl, G. L. 1999. Indus Age The Beginnings. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publication Co. Pvt. Ltd.

Surender 1998-99. Archaeology and History ofthe Bhiwani Block, District Bhiwani (Haryana). M. Phil. Dissertation, M. D. University, Rohtak. Suraj Bhan 1975. Excavation at Mitathal(1968) and other Explorations in the Sutlej-Yamuna Divide. Kurukshetra: Kurukshetra University. Thussu, J. L. 2006. Geology ofHaiyana and Delhi. Bangalore: Geological Society of India. 12/12/2019 - Tigrana Excavation Report

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Tigrana Excavation Report 1 message Dr. Narender Parmar Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 5-21 PM To: "arch.museums1972"

Dear Madam/Sir PFA

with regards

Dr. Narender Parmar Assistant Professor Department of Histor}' and Archaeology Central University of Haryana Jant-Pali, Mahendergerh -123029 Haryana, India

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Final Tigrana.docx 560K Dairy N®""' r cFMSNo:-S —-I ,\ [email protected] y4 Date:- (/ No Objection Certificate for excavation atTlgrana, Dsstt. Bhiwani, Haryana k- From :[email protected] ^ Subject: No Objection Certificate for excavation at Tlgrana, Distt. Bhiwani, Haryana To :arch museumsl972 , [email protected] ( Respected Sir/Madam Kwi=cdI It is pleasure to Informed you that the Department of History and Archaeology, Central University of Haryana got the permission for me ^cavatlon at Tiarana. DIst Bhiwani, Haryana from CABA, Archaeological Survey of India. We have also requirement of the No objection certificate (NOG)from Secretary (Culture) Government of Haryana. It Is pertinent to mention here now a days most of the part of this site has bean removed for agriculture purpose. In this situation, we want to carry out a salvage excavation at this site. All necessary documents are already submitted In your department. Therefore, I request you to issue the NOC for this excavation as soon as possible.

I am looking forward for your kind consideration.

Thanking You

Dr. Narender Parmar (TIC)

Dr. Narender Pannar /Visistant Professor Department of History and Archaeology Central Unh'ersity of Haryana Jant-Pali, Mahendcrgerh -123029 Haryana,India

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Subject: NOC for excavation at Tighrana, District Bhiwani for field season 2019-20.

Reference your email message dated 28.11.2019. The Department has no objection to your proposal to excavate Tighrana subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:-

1. Antiquities discovered shall vest with the Archaeology and Museums Department, Government of Haryana, other than those whose which may be compulsorily acquired ", by the Central Government under section 23(3) of the Central Act 24 of 1958. 2. A report of excavation and antiquities with relevant documentation including antiquity register and photographs shall be provided to the Department of Archaeology & Museums, Haryana within one year of the completion of the

excavation. 3. Inspection by the officials of the Department from time to time.

Deputy Director (Archaeology) for the Principal Secretary to Government of Haryana Department of Archaeology & Museums. Chandigarh.

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Excavation at Tigrana (TRN-1), District Bhiwani, season 2019-20. 1 message director exc Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 5:31 PM To: narender parmar , [email protected], Regional Director , Chandigarh Circle

Sir/Madam,

please see attached Permission Letter.

Director (Exploration & Excavation), Archaeological Survey of India, Dharohar Bhawan 24 Tliak Marg, New Delhi 110001

Phone:011-23004510

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85 p.pdf ^ 1332K ^ NMMA format.pdf ^ 243K Dairy No:..y 5t - r^i Gmail cFNisNo;- "■•■■■q"L Archaeology Haryana Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 3:32 PM To: [email protected], [email protected]

The Director Deparlincnl of Archaeology & Museums, Haryana, Art & Design Building, Sector-lO, Chandigarh, l*incode-1600Il

Dear Sir, The Haryana State Archaeology Department has been quite generous in supporting our archaeological researches in past for the excavations at Masudpur. Burj, Bahola, Lohari Ragho and Khanak along with a few explorations. Our researches have been published in a number of International and National Journals, which established the identity of Haryana on international levels. Khanak is an important site which has been excavated twice by BHU and established Metallurgy of Tin from Harappan periods for the first time. This discovery is pride for Haryana as well as for the Country. Hence, we intends to excavate the site once again on limited scale to obtain more metallurgical evidence and materials for AMS Dating. Further, I shall be grateful if the State Archaeology Department can collaborate in our excavations and send your officers and technical staffs for joint operation. Presently being a Member of Standing Committee of CABA, Archaeological Survey of India, Govt. of India, I can confirm that our proposal for Khanak Excavations has been approved for the field season 2019-2020. I am also attaching herewith copy of emails from the ASI confirming approval of the proposal as well as letters and proposal sent to your office and the ASI for your kind perusal. I once again request that your Department should collaborate in excavations so as antiquities may be handover to your Department after studying and pubiications. I humbly request you to kindly send NOC to the ASI along with a copy to me so as approval letter from the ASI can be issued and work can be started.

With kind regards,

Yours sincerely.

Prof. R.N.Singh

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Dr. Ravindra N. Singh Professor, Deputy Coordinator (CAS-UGC) & Principal Investigator (India) BHU'Cambridge ERC & DST-UKIERI Project Hon. Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Cambridge Department of AlHC & Archaeology Banaras Hindu University Varanasi-:^21005, India Tel, +91 542 2570755 (R) +91 542 2307436 (0) websites: http.//;ntefnel.bhu.ac-in/aihc'rn,titm http://wwv/.arch.cam,ac.uk/rjvers/ -

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Excavation at Khanak, Bhiwani, Haryana (2019-20)- reg. 4 messages

director exc 23 October 2019 at 16:44 To: rns24{gcam.ac.uk. Ravlndra Nath Singh

This is in reference to the subject cited above and to inform that the SC of CABA has granted the permission which is subjected to the submission of the necessary documents from MEA/MHA in respect of foreign coiiaborators/participahts. Therefore, you are requested to submit the same at the earliest for the Issuance of the permission

Director {Exploration & Excavation), Archaeological Surveyof India; Dharohar Bhawan 24 Tiiak Marg, New Delhi 110001

Phone:011-23004510

Ravlndra Nath Singh 6 November 2019 at 15:28 To: director exc

DrVN PrabhakarJi El- Director(EE) \ f opuiy CoordinaHr (CAS) Archaeological Survey of India , Advanced StJdy ^ New Delhi , of AiHC & Archaeolony Dear.Sir, ' Hmdu Universily

This has reference to your email regarding the Excavation at Khanak, In this context I would like to clarify that this proposal is not related to BHU's collaboration with the University of Cambridge.

The proposal has been submitted as: Prof. Ravlndra Nath Singh -Director & Dr Vikas Kumar Singh-Go Director. However, the copies of Collaborative Agreement and other clearances have already been submitted to your office earlier. Submitted documents are valid until September. 2020. Therefore, I request you to kindly arrange for issuance of approval letter for Excavation at Khanak at your earliest convenience.

With regards,

Yours sincerely

R N Singh [Quotod text hidden]

director exc ' 13 November 2019 at 04:16 To: Ravlndra Nath Singh

No.T-17011/40/2019-EE, dated the 12th November, 2019

Dear Sir,

This is In reference to your mail dated 6.11.2019, it is to Inform you that the NOC/Recommendation from Government of Harvana Is still awaited. You are requested to submit the same at the earliest for Issuing permission letter. THIS IS NOT A VALID PERMISSION LETTER.

Director (Exploration & Excavation), https://mail.google.com/mail.'u/0?ik=edd1d5788d&view=pt&search=allS.permthid={hread-f%3Al548l824 73636635216&simpl=msg-f''/c3A1648l 02... 1/2 2'4/2020 Gmsil - Excavalion al Khanak. Bhiwani, Haryana (2019-20)- reg. Archaeological Survey of India, Dharohar Bhawan 24 Til^Marg, New Delhi 1100G1 '

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director exc ' 15 January 2020 at 06:49 To: Ravindra Nath Singh

No.T-170H/40/2qi9-EE. dated the 14th January. 2020

Dear Sir,

This is in reference to this email dated 12.11.2019, it is to inform you that the NOC/Recommendation from Government of Haryana is still'.awaited. You are, once again, requested to submit the same at the earliest for issuing permission letter. THIS IS,NOT A VALID PERMISSION LETTER.

Director (Exploration & Excavation). Archaeological Survey of India. Dharohar Bhawan 24 tllak Marg,New Delhi 110001

Phone:011-23004510

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■ Dr. Ravindra N. Singh CILNTRE OF ADVANCED STUDV Professor, Department of AIHC & Archaeology ^Deputy Coordinator (CAS) cS- BanarasHlnduUniversity Varanasi-221005. India "Principal Investigator (India) 'V BHD-Cambridge Projecl In^ Archaeology Ph. No.;(0542). 6702121 ema/te:ravi bhul@rediffmail-com [email protected]

The Director(EE) Archaeological Survey of India Dated: 26.07.2019 Government of.lndia 24, Tilak Marg Dharohar Bhawan New Delhi 110001

Proposals for (1) Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani Haryana and (2) Explorations in Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar, Punjab Sir, Please llnd enclose herewith Three Sets of two proposals as advance copy duly forwarded by the Head of Department and the Dean. Faculty of Arts for the (}) Excavations at Khanak, Bhhvani Haryana <5 (2) Explorations in Ludhiana. Jalandhar and Amritsar, Punjab during the field season 2019-2020 for kind considerations by the Standing Committee of the Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India, New Delhi-110001. The proposals are also being forwarded to (1) The Superintendent c/o The Principal Secretary, Archaeology^ & Museums, Government of Haiyana, Art and.Design Building, Secior-IO, Chandigarh-16001} and (2) The Director. Directorate of Cultural Affairs, Archaeology & Museums, Plot No.3, Dakshin Marg, Sector 38A, 160036 Chandigarh. 76^5(95(5 for their NOG.

Thanking you,

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Ptolemrh Dept'.'y Coord/nafcv (CAS) Cenlre of Advanced Study Oer^rifnenl of AIHC &Archaeolopy Encl§,T3:bl5?^iSftl3J' Coordinator/OtS; Banaras Hindu University 'Prhidpal Investigator (India) V''aranasi-22I005. India BHU-Cambridge Project in Archaeology Ph.No.:(0542), 67021 I I ema//s:ravi bhu1t5)rediffmail.com [email protected]

The Superintendent Dated: 26.07.2019 c/o The Principal Secrelaiy, Archaeology & Museums. Government of Haryana, Art and Design Building, Sector-10. Chandiaarh-160011

Subject: : Application for Excavations at KJianak, Bhiwani, Haryana

Dear Sir,

Please find enclosed herewith the application for the Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani, Haryana during the Field Season 2019-2020 for the kind approval and NOC by the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Haryana. .

Another set of the application has been sent to The Director (EE). Archaeological Svrvey of India, Government ofIndia. 24 Tilak marg, Nev Delhi- 110001 for the kind considerations of the Standing Committee of the Archaeological Survey of India.

I request you to forward your kind approval & NOC to the Archaeological Snrx'ey of India at your earliest.

Yours sincerely, R.- Si' -.(Prof.R.N.SinihT^

Processor 5 Deputy Coordmalor(CAS) Centre of Advanced study ' ai Khanak. I3iiiuani, Haryana, ,:v" 2'.rB iOhCiatai blvtiiei[p hector ^ APPLICATION FOR CARRYING OUT EXPLORATION I EXCAVATION AT AREAS OTHER THAN PROTECTED FOR THE FIELD SEASON 2019-20 1. Name pf the Project(Exploration/ Excavation): Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani 2. Name and address of the applicant (Enclose Brief Profile) Brief C.V. attached. (If the application is on behalf of an institution, the name thereof should be given) Prof. Ravindra Nath Singh, Director, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Dr. Vikas Kumar Singh, Co-Director, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology. BHD

3. Name of the site: Khanak Locality: Tosham District: Bhiwani State: Haryana Lat: 28°54'13.p0" N; Long: 75'52'05.'99" E 4. Details of previous*studies/brief report on work, if any The Khanak has been excavated on limited scale under direction of R.N. Singh, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University with the financial support from the Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India, New Delhi during the session 2013-2014 & 2015-2016 {lAR 2013-2014 & lAR, 2015-2016) During our limited excavations of three weeks during field season 2013-2014 only five trenches were laid down viz.: A-l, A-2, A-3. A-4 & A-5 at different places in the School ground. All trenches except A-5 were quite productive having Early & Mature Harappan cultural materials, A-5 was a recent filling of earth. Maximum cultural deposit was 1.50 m. Although we could not dig up to the natural soil, but an appreciable range of cultural materials were recovered belonging to Early Harappan & Mature Harappans.

The most common material recovered was fragments of fired ceramic vessels of various types. Arnongst the antiquities, steatite beads figured highest in number (more than 200), but there were also a range of other small finds including copper celt, TC cakes (idly shaped & triangular), beads of semi-precious stone including lapis lazuli and large number of slag showing metallurgical activities in the vicinity.

During our.excavations in the field season 2015-2016, sixteen trenches were laid down viz.. A-01 to A-16. In addition, a Section Cutting Trench B-01 was exposed quite near to Khanak Hills In the area of recent mining. Amongst the above mentioned trenches, Trenches A-01, A-02, A-03, A-04 & A-05 which were excavated during field season 2013- 2014 have been re-opened for further digging. A site plan was also prepared utilizing Total Station Survey with courtesy of the University of Cambridge. All trenches except A-5 were quite productive having Early & Mature Harappan cultural materials. A-5 was a recent filling of earth. In order to assess the extension of the site, a section was exposed quite close to Khanak hills in recent mining area named as Trench B-01 which was also quite productive having both Early & Mature Harappan cultural materials suggesting a cluster of other settlements at different places in entire Khanak village. Maximum cultural deposit was 2.65 m. A six rooms complex of Early Harappan Period along with a gallery running in Trenches A-01/A-05, 06, 08, 11,12,13, 15 and 16 were exposed.

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5000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1'oOtT icaiBC/icatAD 1001 2001 CalitwaitxJ Gate (calBC/calAD) AMS Dates from Khanak. Lohari Ragho I and Masudpur I Khanak appears to have been occupied in the Early Harappan. and early and late Mature Harappan phases. Lohari Ragho I appear to have been occupied in the Early Harappan, and early Mature Harappan phases, but somewhat surprisingly we have a late Mature date from L.511. L.564 is early Medieval, and there is a modern dale. Masudpur appears to have been occupied in the late Mature Harappan phase (earlier phases dated previously), and we have a modern date. Considering AMS dates from Khanak showing metallurgical activities since Early Harappan period, we intends to take a few trenches in-mining area where we have done a section scrapping during 2015-2016 in order to recover evidence of metallurgical activities.

5. Project statement and objectives, time frame Our Preliminary study of the slag suggests that the region would have been an important resourcearea for many verities of metals, minerals, stones (procured from Aravalli hills) and must have provided much needed functional trade routes facilitating the smooth flow of trade items from one place to another.

The prime objective of the proposed small scale excavation Is to assess the cultural materials of Early Harappans and Mature Harappans particularly in the context of the exploitations of stone and minerals. Kochar has reported the mining of tin in this region of Aravallis and Randall Law has postulated that a few of the Harappan stones have been exploited from this part of haryana. Hence it is being proposed to; Vik"

I a. Carry out further excavations at Khanak to establish complete cultural sequence, obtain datable material for Radiometric dating (AMS), b. Collect different geological & mining samples for provenance study. c. Collect archaeobotanical and archaeozoological materials. d. Collect soli samples for phytolith study and OSL dating: e. To construct furnaces and mining activity areas at the site, if any: f. To explore ancient mining area in the vicinity.

6. Extent of the proposed excavation or operation (A plan of the site In triplicate showing In red outline the extent of the proposed excavation or operation to , be attached) Khanak Is in imminent danger of being destroyed by agricultural and occupational activities.. We intend to carry out focussed excavations in order to characterise the sequence of occupation at the site and collections of samples. This will comprise of a few 5 x 5m targeted trenches designed to identify the depth of deposit in different areas.

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7. Approximate expenditure and the anticipated funding Expenditure: Rs.600,000/, Rs..200,000/ through support from Project Funds along with funds from the Department. Rest of amount is anticipated from the Government funding agencies. The expenses for AMS dating and scientific studies may be met out from other sources.

8. Cornposition of the team Dr. R.N.'Singh Director/Excavator-Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology. BHU, br. Vikas K. Singh Co- Director, Excavator, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Dr.R.P.Singh Archaeologist/Excavator, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Dr. P.P.Jpglekar Deccan" College. Pune Dr. D.P.Singh Research Assistant, Lab.,Department of A.I.H.C:-& Archaeology, BHU Mr. A.K. Pandey Draftsman/Surveyor, Department of A.l.H.C. & Archaeology. BHU Prof.-Amar Sjngh Archaeologist, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana Dr. Vikas Pawar Archaeologist, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana Shri Appu Sharan Student Archaeologist. MD University. Rohtak. Haryana Dr. Narendra Pramar Archaeologist, Central University Haryana. Shri Amit Ranjan Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU. Shri S. Chakradhari Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU Shri Aftab Aiam Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC S Arch., BHU

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Km. Arati Chaudhary Sludent Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHD k I #Further collaboration with the Deccan College. Pune and BSIP, Lucknow will be made for archaeozoological and archaeobotanical studies after excavations.

For details of experience, please see separate sheet.

9. Collaborator, If any I am currently collaborating with the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge which may provide me the opportunity for the scientific studies of the materials through the Departments of Geography and Geosciences at Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College London, NT Kanpur and the RLAHA at Oxford.

10. Piap for the preservation and maintenance and proper scientific storage of excavated remains and material. Approximate Expenditure and Funding After the excavations, trenches will be backfilled to prevent accidents and to preserve the archaeological remains. The cultural material recovered from the site will be stored in the archaeological work space at BHU, thus making it accessible for researchers. Our Departrrient is fully equipped. No funding is required. 11. Provision for proper scientific storage of the excavated materials and photo I drawing documentation As noted above, the cultural material recovered from the site will be stored in the archaeological work space at BHU, thus making it accessible for researchers. Botanical, zoological and soil samples will be stored in a suitable manner, and systematic analysis will be taken out by the collaborators and their students. All registered cultural and ceramic material will be photographed and/or drawn, and these images will be used for publication. 12. Stage of submission of the report(s) on exploration (s) / excavation(s) taken up by theappllcant I institution

The status of the reports on previous exploration/excavation are as follows: Year Name of the site 2008 Alamgifpur— report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2008 2008 Buiandkhera- report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2008 2009 Masudpur I - report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2009 2009 Masudpur VII (season 1)- report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review \n 2009 2009 Explorations in Rakhigarhi Hinterland, Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2009 2010 Masudpur VII (season 2)- report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review\n 2010 2010 Burj - report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2010 2010" Explorations In Ghaggar Hinterland Survey. Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2010* 2011 Dabli vas Chugta - report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2011 2012 Bahola - report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2012 2013 Ganeshwar— report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2013 2014 Explorations in Rakhigarhi Hinterland Survey.Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2014 2014 Khanak— report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review\n 2014 2015 Lohari Ragho submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2015 2016 Khanak— report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2016 2017 Lohari Ragho submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Rev/ewin -2017 2018 Masudpur I submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2018 2019 Masudpur ! submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2018

The following PhD research projects have developed out of this work: Completed Yama Dixit (Gates)- Palaeoclimate in India (Earth Sol)(Cantab 2009 - 2013) Sayantani Neogi - geoarchaeology on the Haryana Plains (Cantab 2009 - 2013) Jennifer Bates - Indus archaeobotany (Cantab 2011-2015) Penny Jones - Indus climate and isotopes (Cantab 2012-2017) Manisha Singh, Harappan Legacy in Ganga Valley, 2013. a

Vib'ha Pandey, Archaeology of Northwest India. BHU, 2016 ^ Amit Ranjan-Archaeology of Ghaggar River Basin, BHU, 2019. On-going Danika Parikh - Indus Civilisation pottery in NW India (Cantab 2010-present) Akshyeta Suryanarayan - Indus Civilisation residues (Cantab 2015-present) Alene Gieshe - Indus palaeoclimate (Cantab 2016-present) Jean-Phiilipe Boudain - Indus weather modelling (Cantab 2016-present) Joanna Walker - Indus geoarchaeology (Cantab 2016-present) Alessandro Ceccareili - Indus ceramic production (Cantab 2016-present) Arti Chaudhary- Archaeology of in "the hinterland of Rakhigarhi, BHU.

Stage of publication of final reports Final reports of our limited excavations at Alamgirpur, Masudpur I, Masudpur VII. Burj, Dabli vas Chugta, Bahola, Khanak and Lohari Ragho are under preparation.

Preliminary and more developed analysis of the results of our fieldwork have been reported in following publications:

2019" Parikh, D.-and Petrie, C.A. 2019.'We are inheritors of a rural civilisation": rural complexity and the ceramic economy in the Indus Civilisation in northwest India. World Archaeology 50.5: 1-21 fonline 18 June, DPI: httDs://doi.orq/10.1080/00438243.2019.16014631. 2019 Petrie. C.A.. Orengo, H.. Green, A.S., Walker. J.R.. Garcia. A.. Conesa. P.. Knox, J.R. and Singh. R.N. 2019. Mapping archaeology while mapping an empire: using historical maps to reconstruct settlement landscapes in India and Pakistan. Geosciences 9.1:11 (1-26) [online first 25 December 2018; https://doi.orQ/10.3390/aeosciences901C0i1l. 2019 Green, Adam S., Hector A. Orengo. Aftab Alam, Arnau Garcia. Lillian M. Green. Francesc Conesa, Amit Ranjan. Ravindra N. Singhand Cameron A. Petrie, Re-discovering ancient landscapes; archaeological survey of mound features from historical maps in northwest India and implications for investigating the large-scale distribution of cultural heritage sites in South Asia. Remote Sensing, in press. 2018 bixit, Y., Hodell. D.A., Giesche, A„, Tandon, S.K,, GSzquez. P., Sain;, H.S., Skinner, L., Mujtaba, S.A.I., Pawar, V., Singh. R.N. and Petrie, C.A. 2018 Intensified Indian summer monsoon and the urbanization of the Indus Civilization in northwest India, Scientific Reports 8:4225 [online first 09 March 2018; doi: https://doi.ora/lO.1038/s41598-018- 22504-51. 2018 Green, A.S. and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Landscapes of urbanisation and de-urbanization: integrating site location datasets from northwest India to investigate changes in the Indus Civilization's settlement distribution. Journal of Field Archaeology 43.A: 284-299 [online first May 11. 2018: https://doi.ora/10.108Q/QQ934690.2018.14643321. 2018 Orengo. H.A..and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Multi-Scale Relief Model(MSRM): a new algorithm for the analysis of subtle topographic change in digital elevation models. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43.6: 1361-1369 [online first 14 December 2017; httPs://doi.ora/10.1002/eso.4317: impact factor 3.697], 2018 Pawar, V.. Singh, R.N., and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Harappan settlement pattern on the desert margin with special reference to Hanumangarh District. Indian Journal of Archaeology 3.3: 20-30. 2018 Singh, R.N, Petrie, C.A.. Pandey. A.K., Singh, D.P., Singh. V.K. and Singh, M 2018. Recent excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani, Haryana-2016: A Harappan site in northwest India, BharatiAO: 15-25. 2018 Singh. R.N., Green, A.S., Green. L.M.. Ranjan. A., Alam, A. and Petrie. C.A 2018. Between the Hinterlands: Preliminary Results from the TwoRains Survey in Northwest India 2017, Man and Environment 43.2: 84-102. 2018 Singh. R.N., Petrie, C.A.. Alam, A. Bates, J. Ceccareili, A., Chakraborty, S., Chakradhari, S.. Chowdhary, A.. Dixit, Y.. French. C.A.I.. Gieshe, A.. Green. A.S., Green. L.M.. Jones, ,P.J.; Lightfoot, E.. Pandey. A.K., Pawar. V., Ranjan, A.. Redhouse, D.I., Singh. D.P.. Suryanarayan, A.. Ustunkaya, M.C. and Walker, J.R. 2018, Living in the hinterland I: survey and excavations at Lohari Ragho 2015-2017, Puratattva 48: 130-141. 2017 Bates. J., Petrie. C.A., and Singh. R.N. 2017. Approaching rice domestication in South Asia: new evidence from Indus settlements in northern India, Journal of Archaeological' Science 78: 193-201 [doi: httD://dx.dQi.orQ/10.lQ16/i.ias.2016.04.0i81 'WA-

2017 Bates, J., Petrie, C.A. and Singh, R.N. 2017. Cereals, calories and change; exploring .approaches to quantification in Indus archaeobotany, Archaeologicdl and Anthropological Sciences [online first httDiy/dx.doi.orq/l 0.1007/s12520-017-Q489-21. 2017 Bates, d., Singh, R.N. and Petrie. C.A. 2017. Exploring Indus crop processing: combining phytoliths and macrobotanical analysis to consider the organisation of agriculture in northwest India C.3200-1500BC. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (special issue) 26:25-41 [published online 21 May 2016; doi: httD://dx.doi. orq/10.10Q7/s00334-016-0576- 9i: " 2017 French, C.A.I.. Solas. F. and Petrie, C.A. 2017. Expanding the wider potential research parameters of geoarchaeology: case studies from Aksum in Ethiopia and Haryana in India, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences online first, March 16, 2014 fhttD://dx.doi.orayi0.i007/s12520-014-0186-31. 2017 Joglekar, P.P., Singh. R.N. and Petrie, C.A. 2017 Fauna! Remains from Sampoiia Khera (Masudpur I), Haryana. Indian Journal of Archaeology 2^ 25-60, 2017 Parikh, D. and Petrie, C.A. 2917. Urban-rural dynamics and Indus ceramic production in northwest India: a preliminary analysis of the pottery from Masudpur I and Masudpur VII, in Leffevre, V., Didler, A. and Mutin, B. (ed.). South Asian Archaeology 2012: Man and Environment in Prehistoric and Protohistoric South Asia: New Perspectives, Indicopleustoi, Brepols, Turnhout: 221-241. 2017 Petrie, C,.A. 2017. Crisis, what crisis? Adaptation, resilience and transformation in the Indus Civilisation, in Cunningham, T. and Driessen, J.(eds) Crisis to Collapse: The Archaeology of Social Breakdown, Aegis Publications, UC Louvain: 43-64. 2017 Petrie, C.A. and Bates, J. 2017. 'Multi-cropping', intercropping and adaptation to variable environments in the indus Civilisation, Journal of World Prehistory 30: 81-130 fhttD://dx.doi.orq/10.1007;5lQ963-017-9101-z1. 2017 Petfie, C.A., Singh, R.N.. Bates, J.. Dixit, Y.. French, C.A.I, Hodell, D., Jones, P.J., Lancelotti, C., Lynam, F., Neogi, S.. Pandey, A.K., Parikh. D., Pawar, V., Redhouse, D.I., Singh, D.P. 2017. Adaptation to variable environments, resilience to climate change: investigating Land, Water and Settlement in northwest India, Current Anthropology 58.1: 1-30 fhttp://v/ww.journals.uchicaqo.eduydoi/full/1Q.1086/6901i2l. 2017 Petrie, C.A.. Singh, R.N., French, C.A.I., Bates, J., Lancelotti, C., Neogi, S., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Pawar, V. and Redhouse. D.I. 2017. Land, Water and Settlement in northwest India 2008-2012: a review of progress, in Leffevre. V., Didier, A. and Mutin. B. (ed.). South Asian Archaeology 2012: Man and Environment in Prehistoric and Protohistoric South Asia: New Perspectives, Indicopleustoi, Brepols, Turnhout: 243-255 2016 Bates, J. and Petrie, C.A. 2016. Phytolith analysis and the Indus Civilisation: a review, Man and Environment 6^.2:32-49. 2016 joglekar, P.P.. Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. 2016. A Preliminary report of animal remains from Bhimwada Jodha (Masudpur VII), Haryana, Bharati 39: 1-9. 2016 Petrie, C.A., Bates, J.. Higham, T. and Singh, R.N. 2016. Feeding ancient cities in South Asia: dating the adoption of,rice, millet and tropical pulses in the Indus Civilisation, Antiquity 90.354:1489-1504 [doi: httDs://dol.orq/10.15184/aav.2016.210l. 2015 Singh, R.N.. Petrie. C.A., et al. 2015. Excavations at Masudpur, Hissar District. Haryana: April 16 - May 12, 2009, BHU and University of Cambridge Archaeological Project, Indian Archaeology: A Review 2000-2009: 55-71. 2015 Dixit. v.. Hodell. D.A., Slnha, R, and Petrie, C.A. 2015. Oxygen isotope analysis of multiple, single ostracod valves as a proxy for combined variability in seasonal temperature and lake water oxygen isotopes, JoPL 53' 35-45. [online 11 October 2014. http://dx.dol.orQ/10.1007/s10933-014-9B05-3l. 2014 Dixit, v., Hodell. D.A., Slnha, R. and Petrie, C.A. 2014. Abrupt weakening of the Indian summer monsoon at 8.2 kyr B.P.; EPSL 391: 16-23 rhttp://dx.doi.orQ/10.1Q16/i.ePS[.2014.01.0261. 2014 Dixit, v.. Hodell. D.A. and Petrie, C.A. 2014. Abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon- in northwest India -4100 year ago. Geology 42; 339-342 [http://dx.dQi.orq/10.1130/G35236.1I. 2013 Singh, R.N.. Petrie, C.P., Joglekar, P.P., Neogi, S.. Lancelotti. 0.. Pandey. A.K. and Pat.hak, A. 2013. Recent Excavations at Alamgirpur, Meerut District: A Preliminary Report, Man and Environment 38.1: 32-54. 2013 Singh, R.N. Petrie, C.A., Bales, J., Joglekar, P.P., Pandey. A.K.. Parikh. D . Singh, V.K. ^ and Singh, D.P. 2013. Survey and excavations at Bahola, District Karnal, Haryana: A ^ ' Preliminary Report, ShSra/?" 37: 27-37 District, Rajasthan, Puraialiva 42: 133-147, 2013 Singh, R.N^, Cameron A. Petrie, Pramod P.Joglekar. SayantaniNeogi, CarLanceiottr.Arun K; Pandey &Anubha Pathak' Recent Excavations at Alamgirpur, Meerut: APreliminary Report, Man & Environment, XXXVIII(I), 2013, pp. 32-54 2012 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., French, C.A., Bates. J., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Lancelotti, C. and Redhouse, D.I. 2012. Survey and excavations at Dabli-vas Chugta, Hanumangarh. 2012 Singh, R.N.. Petrie, C.A.. J. Bates. A.K. Pandey, D. Parikh and D.P.Singh, Survey andExcavations at Bahola, Karnal District. Haryana: March 27-April, 17. 2012, Manaviki- Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences. Vol. Ill (2)-IV (1). pp.5-11,(ISSN 0975-7880), Varanasl. 2012'- Singh; R. N., Petrie.0.A,, C.A.I.French and D.I.Redhouse. Geoarchaeological Survey and Unearthing Cultural Assemblages at Dabli vas ChugtaShara//, Vol. 36, pp. 57-71. 2011 Petrie, Cameron, Ravindra Singh & Charles French, Land. Water and Settlement: Dabli Vas Chugta, Archaeology at Cambridge. Annual Report McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, Cambridge, 33 2010 Singh, R;N., Petrie, C.A., French, C.A., Neogi, S...Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D. and Pawar. V. 2010. Geoarchaeological survey and excavations at Burj. Fatehabad, Haryana. Puratattva,40: 94-101. "2010. Singh. R.N,, Petrie. C,A., Pawar, V.. Pandey. A.K., Neogi, 8., Singh, M., Singh, A.K. Parikh, D. and Lancelotti. C, Changing Pattern of Settlement in the rise and fall of Harappan Urbanism and beyond: A Preliminary Report on the Rakhigarhi Hinterland Survey 2009, Man & Environment, 35.1: 37-53. 2009' Petrie, C.A., Singh. R.N. and Singh, A.K. Investigating Changing Settlement Dynamics on the Plains: The 2009 Sun/ey and Excavations at Masudpur (Hissar District. Haryana). Purattava, No.39, 38-49. 2009 Singh. R.N. and Petrie, C.A. Lost rivers and Life on the Plains- Approaches to understanding Human Environment interaction between the Collapse of Indus Urbanism and the rise of Early Historic Cities, Saraswati River-A Perspective (Ed.' A.R.Chaudhrl), Kurukshetra. 102-111. 2009 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A. Singh, A.K. and Singh, M. Excavations at Masudpur (Hissar, Haryana): A Preliminary Report, Bharati. Vol. 33. 35-49, 2009 Petrie, C,A. and Singh, R.N. Land. Water and Settlement m Haryana, India, Archaeology at Cambridge:2009. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, 29. 2009 Singh, R.N., Singh, A.K. and Petrie, C.A. Excavations at Alamgirpur. Meerut. India, paper presented at Workshop on UKIERI's Land. Water and Settlement Project. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Cambridge, June, 2009. 2009 Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. Land, v/ater and Settlement: Environmental Constraints and Hurrian responses In Northwest India between 2000BC to 300BC. Environment of Ancient India, Monograph No.21, AIHC & Archaeology, BHU, Varanasl (eds. P.N. Singh etal) 105-108. 2008 Petrie, C.A. and Singh, R.N. Investigating cultural and geographical transformations from the coliapse of Harappan urbanism to the rise the great Early Historic cities: a note on the Land. Water and Settlement Project, South Asian Studies 24: 37-38. 2008 Singh, R.N. and Petrie. C.A. An Archaeological and Geographical Reconnaissance of western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana: April 4- 15 and May 21, 2008, Bharati Z2: 1-15. 2008, Singh. R.N. Petrie, C.A., et al. Settlements in Context: Reconnaissance in western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. April and May 2008. Man and Environment 33.2: 71-87.

Preliminary and more final results have also been presented at the following workshops, conferences and invited lectures (2018 onward only):

2019 Conference presentation - Bates, J.. Singh, R.N.. and Pelrle, C A A view from the villages: disentangling 'multi-cropping', agricultural adaptation and resilience in the Indus Civilisation, IWGP. Lecce, 03 June 2019 Conference.presentation - Ustunkaya, M.C., Wright. N.. Singh. R.N., and Petrie, C.A. Environmental choices of Indus' populations, IWGP, Lecce. 03 June ^5-1 ^

2019 Conference presentation - M. Cemre Ustunkaya. Nathan Wright, Andrew Fairbairn, Ravindra Nath Singh, Cameron A. Petrle, A comparison of the 4.2k BP event from Indus River Basin to Central Anatolia. 4.2 ' ka BP in Anatolia: The Crisis Years and Aftennath, University of Ya§ar, Izmir, 17-18 May. 2019 Conference poster • M.C. Ustunkaya, N. Wright. R. N. Singh, C.A. Petrie. At the fringe of Indus civilisation: what can v/e learnl about Indus people at Khanak, Lohari Ragho I and Masudpur I through macro-botanical remains? UKAS 2019, Manchester, 24-26 April. 2019 Conference presentation - Angourakis, A., Bates, J., Baudouin, J.-P., Giesche, A. Ustunkaya, M.C., Wright, N., Singh. R.N. and Petrie, C.A. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"; modelling cropping strategies and climate change in the Indus Civilisation, CAA 2019, Krakow, 23 April. '2019 Conference presentation - Green. A., Alam, A., Green, L.M., Ranjan, A., Singh, R.N. and Petrie. C.A. Intensifying extensive survey: a digital workflow for rapidly assessing ancient settlements across large geographical areas, CAA 2019, Krakdw. 23 April. 2019 Conference presentation - Durcan, J., Thomas, D.S.G.. Pawar. V.. Sharan, A., Gupta, S., Orengo, H.A.. Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A. Holocene landscape dynamics of the Ghaggar-Hakra fluvial system, India: implications for the Indus Civilisation, "Geoarchaeological records of human-landscape interaction: from a nature-dominated world to the Anthropocene", ECU 2079, Vienna, 7-12 April 2019 Workshop presentation - A. Angourakis, J. Bates, J.-P. Baudouin, A. Giesche, M. Cemre Ustunkaya, N. Wright, R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, How to 'downsize' a complex society: experiments with agent-based models to assess the resilience of Indus Civilisation settlements to climate change, "Socio- Environmental Dynamics over the last 15.000 Years: The Creation of Landscape Vi', Inlemational Open Workshop. Kiel, 11 16 March. 2019 Workshop presentation - Adam S. Green, S. Dixit, K. Garg, S Neelaram S., G. Singh. K. Vatta, A.Whitbread, M.K. Jones, R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie. What makes water management strategies resilient? An integrated, holistic and comparative approach to applying lessons from the past to India's agriculture, "Socio Environmental Dynamics over the last 15.000 Years: The Creation of Landscape VI", International Open Workshop, Kiel, 11-16 March. 2019 Conference presentation - A. S. Green, 8. Dixit, V. Kamal, D. Murthy, S. Neelaram. G. Singh. A. Whitbread. M.K. Jones, R.N. Singh, and C.A. Petrie. Tanks and towns: an exploration of different paths toward sustainability in ancient South Asia, Empires and Kingdoms of DakshipSpatha with Special F^eference to Telangana, Third International Seminar, Hyderabad. 19-20 January. 2018 Conference presentation - Suryanarayan, A., Cubas, M., Craig, 0., Heron. C.. O'Connell, T.C., Singh, R.N., Shinde, V. and Petrie, C.A., What's cooking in the Indus Civilisation?. 8th International Symposium on Blomolecular Archaeology ISBA 2018, Jeha, 18-21 September. 2018 Conference presentation-.Suryanarayan, A., Cubas, M., Craig. O., Heron, C.. O'Connell, T.C., Singh, R.N., Shinde, V. and Petrie, C.A., Organic residue analysis as a routine method in archaeology? Opportunities, Avenues and Challenges, European Association for Archaeology Conference. Barcelona, Spain 2018 Conference presentation - C.A. Petrie, R.N. Singh, A. Alam, J. Bates, J-P. Baudouin, A. Ceccarelli, S. Chakrabortl, S. Chakradari, A. Ghowdhury. Y. Dixit. C.A.I. French, A. Garcia, A. Giesche. A. Green, L. Green, D. Hodell, P.J. Jones, E. Lightfoot, 8. Neogi, H.A. Orengo. A.K. Pandey, D. Parikh. V. Pawar, A. Ranjan. D.l. Redhouse, D.P. Singh. A. Suryanarayan, M.C. Ustunkaya, and J. Walker. From Land. Water and Settlement to TwoRains: progress in 2016, 2017 and 2018, at the Twenty-fourth International Conference of the EASAA. European Association of South Asian Archaeologists. Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Green A., A. Ranjan. L. Green, A. Alam, R.N. Singh, and C.A. Petrie, Urban and post-urban intensities: archaeological signature landscapes of northwest India, at the Twenty-fourth International Conference of the EASAA, European Associalion of South Asian Aichaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Suryanarayan A., Heron, C., Craig. 0., Cubas, M., Singh, R.N., Shinde, V., 0'Corinell„T.C.-and Petrie, C.A. "What's cooking?" Using ceramic residue analysis to investigate cooking practices in Indus northwest India, at the Twenty-fourth Inlemalional Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Lightfoot E., P.J. Jones, T.C. O'Connell, P. Joglekar, R.N, Singh and C.A. Petrie. A comparison of animal management practices at Indus sites In Haryana using stable isotope analysis, at the Twenty-fqiirih International Conference of the EASAA. European Association of Soulh Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Ustunkaya, M.C., R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, Indus farming on the desert margins: archaeobotanical evidence from Khanak. Bhiwani, Haryana, India, at the Twenty-fourth International Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - J. Bates, R,N. Singh. K.D. Thomas and C.A. Petrie, Life on the edge: food diversity, choice and resilience along the borders of the Indus Civilisation, at the Twenty-fourth Inlemational Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists. Naples. 2-6 July. 2018 - Conference poster - J. Walker, C.A.I, French, H. Orengo, V. Pawar. A. Giesche. R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, Burled Indus landscapes: using geoarchaeoiogy to assess human-environment interactions at Lohari Ragho, northwest India, at the Twenty-fourth Inlemational Conference of (lie EASAA, European Association of Soulh Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 - Conference poster - A. Ceccarelli, P. Quinn, R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie. From rural ceramic production to communities of practice: a technological reassessment of Indus ceramics from NW India, at the Twenty-fourth Memationa! Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists. Naples, 2-6 r2018 Invited presentation - Suryanarayan. A., Cubas, M.. Craig. O.'. Heron. C., O'Connell T Singh R N and Pelrie. C.A. What's cooking in the Indus Civilisation?, Shared Tastes Conference. Leiden University Netherlands, 28-30 June 2018 Invited presentation - Bates. J.. Garcia-Granero. J.J.. Pethe, C A., Singh. R.N.. Madeila, M. and Aiithprasad P. Cultural Unifier, Local Staple or Exotic Luxury? Food as Material Culture in the Indus Civilisation. South Asia c.3200-1500 BC, Shared Tastes Conference. Leiden University. Netherlands. 28-30 June 2018 Invifed presentation - Suryanarayan, A., Cubas, M.. Craig, 0,. Heron, C„ O'Connell, T.C.. Singh. R.N. Shinde, V. and Pethe, C.A., What's In the pot? Characterising natural substances in archaeology through lipld and isotopic analyses. London Biological Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group. British Museum, London 2018 Invited presentation - Pelrie. C.A., Green. A.. Orengo, H,. and Singh. R.N.. Hidden in plain sight- reconstructing landscapes ofurbanism in northwest India. 12 April, 'SAA Confererice. Washington DC. 11-15 April.

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Subject: NOG for excavation at Khanak, District Bhiwani for field season 2019-20. Reference your email message dated 04.02.2020. The Department has no objection to your proposal to excavate Khanak, Bhiwani, subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:- 1. Antiquities discovered shall vest with the Archaeology and Museums Department, Government of Haryana, other than those whose which may be compulsorily acquired by the Central Government under section 23(3) of the Central Act 24 of 1958. 2. A report of excavation and antiquities with relevant documentation including antiquity register and photographs shall be provided to the Department of Archaeology & Museums, Haryana within one year of the completion of the excavation. 3. Inspection by the officials of the Department from time to time. The MoU will be signed between your Institution/Department and our department respectively and include the name of Co-Director from Archaeology & Museums, Haryana in the application regarding excavation for the field season 2019-20. /b- Deputy Director (Archaeology) jfor the Principal Secretary to Government of Haryana Department of Archaeology & Museums, Chandigarh Endst No. 17/24-2017-Pura/ Dated: The copy to be sent to Central Advisory Board of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, Dharoha Bhawan, 24 Tilak Marg, New Delhi for the information.

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Dated: Subject: NOC for excavation at Khanak, District Bhiwani for field season 2019-20. Reference your email message dated 04.02.2020. The Department has no objection to your proposal to excavate Khanak, Bhiwani, subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:- 1. Antiquities discovered shall vest with the Archaeology and Museums Department, Government of Haryana, other than those whose which may be compulsorily acquired by the Central Government under section 23(3) of the Central Act 24 of 1958. 2. A report of excavation and antiquities with relevant documentation including antiquity register and photographs shall be provided to the Department of Archaeology & Museums, Haryana within one year of the completion of the excavation. 3. Inspection by the officials of the Department from time to time. The MoU will be signed between your Institution/Department and our department respectively and include the name of Co-Director from Archaeology & Museums, Haryana in the application regarding excavation for the field season 2019-20. lb. Deputy Director (Archaeology) for the Principal Secretary to Government of Haryana Department of Archaeology & Museums, Chandigarh EndstNo. 17/24-2017-Pura/ Dated: The copy to be sent to Central Advisory Board of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, Dharoha Bhawan, 24 Tilak Marg, New Delhi for the information.

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Subject; NOG for excavation at Khanak, District Bhiwani for field season 2019-20. Reference your email message dated 04.02.2020. The Department has no objection to your proposal to excavate Khanak, Bhiwani, subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions 1. Antiquities discovered shall vest with the Archaeology and Museums Department, Government of Haryana, other than those whose which may be compulsorily acquired by the Central Government under section 23(3) of the Central Act 24 of 1958. 2. A report of excavation and antiquities with relevant documentation including antiquity register and photographs shall be provided to the Department of Archaeology & Museums, Haryana within one year of the completion of the excavation. 3. Inspection by the officials of the Department from time to time. The MoU will be signed between your Institution/Department and our department respectively and include the name of Co-Director from Archaeology & Museums, Haryana in the application regarding excavation for the field season 2019-20. --SA - Deputy Director (Archaeology) for the Principal Secretary to Government of Haryana Department of Archaeology & Museums, Chandigarh EndstNo. 17/24-2017-Pura/q3^ Dated: o The copy to be sent to Central Advisory Board of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, Dharoha Bhawan, 24 Tilak Marg, New Delhi for the information.

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Subject: No Objection Certificate for Excavation at Tigrana (TRN-i)/District Bhi\wani, Haryana . for the field Season 2020-21.

Respected Sir, With reference to the above mentioned subject, the Department of History and Archaeology, Central University of Haryana is planning to conduct an excavation at Tigrana site, District Bhiwani, Haryana. The excavation work at Tigrana was also carried out by the same department in the field season 2015-16 and 2019-20. Due to corona virus (Covid-19), we could not achieves our goals in the field season 2019-20. As per requirement of Archaeological Survey of India (letter no:, E 1/29/2015-EE dated 11-10-17), all information related to excavation results (2015-161 and details of antiquities(NMMA format) has already been sent to Archaeological Survey of India. It is pertinent to mention here now a days most of the part of this site has been removed for agriculture purpose. In this situation, we want to carry out a salvage excavation at this site. Therefore, I request you to issue the No Objection Certificate by Secretary (Culture), Government of Haryana (on demand of Archaeological Survey of India) for the proposed excavation at Tigrana.

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TIC/HOD Department of History and Archaeology Central University of Haryana. Jant Pali- Mahendragarh APPLICATION FOR CARRYING.OUT EXCAVATION AT AREAS OTHER THAN PROTECTED FOR THE FIELD SEASONS 2020-21 (Sites other than centrally protected)

Name of the Project (Exploration / EXCAVATION AT TIGRANA Excavation) DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF HARYANA .1 ANT-PALI, MAHENDERGARH HARYANA-123029 Name and address of the applicant Dr. Narender Parmar (Enclose brief profile) Department of History and Archaeology (If the applicant is on behalf of an institution, Central University of Haryana the name thereof should be given) Jant-Pali, Mahendergarh Haryana-123029 Name of the site TIGRANA, Locality TRN-1 District Bhiwani District, State Haryana. Lat Long (28°53'25.9" N and 76°08'08.8" E) Details of previous studies / brief report on Annex 1 attached ■ work Carried out by the applicant during last field season on the proposed site / area, if any

Project statement and objectives, time-frame I. Understanding the cultural sequence and chronology of the site, il. j Determining the regional identity of Harappan in the region:

Extent of the proposed excavation or 1. Horizontal and Vertical excavation operation(A plan of the site in triplicate showing in red outline the extent of the proposed excavation or operation to be attached) Approximate expenditure and the anticipated Rs. 3,00,000 (Rs. Three lacs only) funding Comnosition of the team No Designation Nos. 1 . Site Supervisors 2 Staff from Central University of Haryana Trench Supervisors 20 Students from Central University of Haryana 1. Surveyor I Central University of Haryana 4 Draughtsman 1 Central University of Haryana 5. Photographer 1 Central University of Haryana Collaborator, if any No

Plan for the preservation, maintenance and Archaeo Botany Lab proper scientific storage of excavated remains Archaeo Zoology Lab and material. Archaeo Chemistry Lab .V

* ^ Storage in the archaeological Lab of Central University of Haryana Archaeology Museum Repository Provision for archiving photo, drawing and I. High resolutions SLR Digital other Documentation materials pertaining to cameras with laptops and photo- excavation / Exploration editing software's and photo- printers. II. Latest digital Total Station with j software and Global Positioning System (GPS) for surface survey, contour, levels, depths of the trenches and digital/manual drawing of the structure, trench, Stratigraphy and features. III. On site lab for botanical, chemical and zoological sample analysis. IV. On site lab for Pottery and Antiquity drawing and analysis.

Stage of submission of the report(s) on previous exploration (s)/ excavation(s) taken up by the applicant / institution

Year Name of the site Stage of publication of report

2015-16 Tigrana Report writing in Progress to be published in the first week of October 2020

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I declare that the above information is correct. I also undertake to observe the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 and the rules made

thereunder.

Station oJv Signature of the applicant

(If the application is on behalf of an institution, the signature should be that of the head of the institution, which term includes the Registrar of a University) Date: Signature of tllie Registrar Central University of Haryana

Seal of the institution oRgi«ir Central Univefsity of Haryana ?fWiT - 12302$ Mahendergarti, Hary wa -123029'

Name of institution: Central University of Haryana. Jant-Pali, Mahendergarh, Haryana, India.

Recommendation of the State Government, Haryana CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Narender Singh Parmar Central Universiry of Haryana Jant-Pali, Mahcndragarh- Haryana (Mobile) 08950238575, 09416272613 Email: [email protected]_.

Present Status:. Assistant Professor in the Department of History & Archaeology, Central University of Haryana, Jant-Pali, Mahcndragarh (2014 to till date)

Administrative Position:

■ Assistant Warden Boys' Hostel, Central University of Haryana (June 2018 to till date) ■ Assistant Procter, Central University of Haryana (Nov 2016 to July 2017 and May 2018 to till date) ■ Tcacher-in-charge, Department of Hisioiy and Archaeology, Central University of Haryana (Sep 2017 to till date)

Teaching and other Experiences: Assistant Professor in the Department of Histoiy, Rajiv Gandhi Government College for Women, Bhiwani, affiiiiaied to M. D. University, Rohtak. (From Aug 2013 to Apirl 2014)

❖ Documentation Assistant (NMMA Project of Archaeological Survey of India) in the Dept. of Archaeology, Deccan College, Post 'Graduate and Research Institute, Pune. (From 2010 to 2011)

Educational Qiialifications:

> Ph. D. (2013) in Archaeology, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, - Pune

> Post Graduate Diploma in Archaeology (2008), Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi,(with first class)

> M.Phil. (2007) in A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, Kuaikshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana.(with first class)

> M.A. (2006) in History, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, (with first class) X' «. .

Excavation Experiences: i • Participated in the excavation at Bhirrana (Harappan Site) District Fatehbad, Haryana ■ under the supervision of Dr. L.S. Roa, Febuary, 2006. • Participated in the excavation at Chatiirbujnathnala (Prehistoric Site), District Mandsaur, M.P. under the supervision of Dr. Giriraj Kumar, December, 2006 • Participated in the excavation at Juaffardih (Early Historical Site), District Nalanda, Bihar, under the supervision of Dr. S. C. Saren, January-Febuary, 2007. • Participated in the excavation at Farmana (Harappan Site), District Rohtak, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. V. S. Shindc, December-Febuary, 2008-2009. • Participated in the excavation at Manheru (Harappan Site), District Bhiwani, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C.Thakran and Dr. Amar Singh, Febuary-March, 2009. • Participated in the excavation at Masudpur (Harappan Site) District Hissar, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. N. Singh and Dr. Cameron Petrie, Apiil-May, 2009. • Participated in the excavation at Badli (Harappan Site), District Jhajjar, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C.Thalcran and Dr. Amar Singh, September-Octomber, 2009. • Participated in the excavation at Mahem (Harappan Site), District Rohtak, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C.Thakran and Dr. Amar Singh, January-March, 2010. • Participated in the excavation at Karsola (Harappan Site), District Jind, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. V. S. Shinde and Dr. P. B. S. Senger December-April, 2010-2011. • Participated in the excavation at Lohat (Harappan Site), District Jhajjar, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C.Thalcran and Dr. Amar Singh, Apiil, 2011. • Participated in the excavation at Lohat (Harappan Site), District Jhajjar, Haryana under the supervision of Dr. R. C. Thakran and Dr. Amar Singh, March-Apjil, 2012. • Participated in the excavation at Ganeshwar (Ganeshwar-.Todhapura Site), District Siker, Rajasthan under the supervision Dr. R. N. Singh. March-April 2013. • Excavations carried out at ligrana (Harappan site). District Bhiwani, Haryana, as . Director April-May 2016.

I Exploration Experiences: Carried Archaeogical explorations (Village to Village Survey) in Bhiwani district, Haryana (Feb- March 2008, July-Aug 2009 and Oct-Nov 2011). As result of this compreehensivc survey 516 sites were explored and 400 sites are newly discovered. Participated in the exploration and tour programmes of archaeological sites and monuments in Madhya Pradesh, Kamataka, Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bangal, Utter Pradesh, Uttranchal, West Bangal, Tamilnadu, Orrisa and Goa (2006-08) conducted by the Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, 2006-08. iV

Participated in the exploratio^s^p^ogranlme in the Ghaggar basin (2006) carried out by Prof. Vasant Shinde,- Deccan College, Pune. Participated in the explorations programme of tlie Harappan sites in the Gujarat (2008) conducted bythc Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi. Participated in the explorations programme of the Harappan sites in the Western Uttar Pradesh (April 2009) carried out by Dr. R. N. Singh (B.H.U.) and Dr. Cameron Petrie (Cambridge University).

In order to have proper regional understanding of the Harappan civilization of Sarsawati/Ghaggar river, the sun/ey the all excavated sites were visted and some new sites were discovered (2009-2010). . -

Participated in the explorations programmes (Village to Village Survey) in Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan (Oct-Nov,2009 and Aug-Scp 2010). During the exploration 571 sites were visited and most of the sites were newly discovered.

Paiiicipaicd in the explorations programmes at the site of Rakhigarhi (international project), Hisar District, Hai7ana, (Jan 2012- Mar 201-2) under the supervision of Prof. Vasant Shinde, Deccan College, Pune.

Participated in the explorations programmes vat the site of Daimabad, District Ahmadnagar, Maharasitra,(Jan 2013) for the understanding of the extent of the Harappan Civilization.

Participated in the explorations programmes (Village to Village Survey) in Mansa District, Punjab (June-July, -2013). Above the 150 archaeological sites were visited during the explorations and irioslty sites were newly.discovered.

Participated in the explorations programmes (Village to Village Survey) in Sangrur District, Punjab (Apirl-May 2014). During the exploration 200 archaeological sites were visited.

Conferences & Paper Presentations:

2018. Orientation Program organized by B P. S. M. Vishwavidyalay, Khanpur Kalan, Sonipat on 20Nov-18Dec2018. . • Paper Presented: Evolution of the First Urbanization in Haryaiia.

2017. National Confernece of Hai7ana History Cogress held at Ch. Ranveer Singh University, Jind, Haryana on 24-25 Novcnber 2017. • Paper Presented: Architectural Remains in the Bhiwani District, Haryana.

2017. National Confernece of Haryana Academy of History and Culture held at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra on 7-8 Fcbuary 2017. Paper Presented: Archaeology oi Bhiwani District, Haryana: A Cultural Procuss from Earliest to Medieval Period. 2016. National Confernece of Haiyana History Cogress held at Janta College, Charlchi Dadri, Haryana on 19-20 Novenber 2016. Paper Presented: Tigrana; Its Cultui al Sequence and Antiquties.

2016. National Seminar of Socio-Economic and Cultural aspects of Pilgiiinage Tourism in India ordanized by Janta College, Charklii Dadri, Haryana on 02 February 2016. Paper Presented: The Roots of Harappan Civilization.

2015. National Conference of Heritage of India: Challenges and Prospects ordanized by Janta College, Charkhi Dadri, Haryana on 10 Januaiy 2015. Paper Presented: Harappan Urbanzation in the Upper Saraswati Easin. 2014. International Conference of European Association for South Asian Aichaeology & Art held at National Museum of World Culture, Stockholm, Sweden from 30 June-4 July 20)4 (with Prof. R. N. Singh). Paper Presented: Recent ILxacavations at Gancsliwar, Sikar, Rajastiian, India.

2014. International Conference of IAS, ISPQS, IHCS ordanized by Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune from 6-8 October 2014 (with Prof R. N. Singh). Paper Presented: A Small Scale Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani- A Site in Tosham Mining Area, Haryana. 2013. International Conference on Harappan and Regional Cholcolithic Culture of Greater Indus Region ordanized by DepartmeiLt of Archaeology, University of Keiala, I liiiuvananthapuiam on 25-27 November 2013 Paper Presented: Harappan Settlement System and Economic Status in the Semi-arid zone, Bhiwani District, Haryana.

2013. International Conference on Harappan and Regional Cholcolithic Cultuie of Grcatei Indus Region ordanized by Department of Archaeology, University ot Kerala, I hiruvananthapuiam on 25-27 November 2013 (with Appu Sharan). Paper Presented: Fresh Light on the Proto-historic Settlement in Mansa District, Punjab. 2013. International Conference on Harappan and Regional Cholcolithic Culture of Greater Indus Region ordanized by Department of Archaeology, University of Kerala, 1 hiiuvananthapuram on 25-27 November 2013 (with VikasPawar). Paper Presented: Harappan Civilization: Emerging New Picture in Hamimangarb District, Rajasthan.

2013. International Conference of IAS, ISPQS, IHCS ordanized by Department of AIHC & Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University from 14-16 December 2013. Paper Presented: The Begginiiiug of the First Urbanzation in the Upper Saraswati Basin.

2013. International Conference of IAS, ISFQS,,1HCS ordanized by Department of AIHC & Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University from 14-16 December 2013 (with Vikas Pawar). Paper Presented: Distribution and Relationship of Protohistoric Settlement in Hanumangarli District, Rajasthan.

2013. International Conference of IAS, ISPQS, IHCS ordanized by Department of AIHC & Archaeology, Banaias Mindu University from 14-16 December 2013 (with Vijay Kumar). Paper Presented; iiarappnn Settlement System in the Narnaiind Block, Hisar District, Haryana.

2013. International Conference of IAS, ISPQS, IHCS ordanized by Department of AIHC & Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University from 14-16 December 2013 (with Appu Sharan). Paper Presented: An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Protohistoric Settlements in Mansa District, Punjab.

2013. Regional Conference on Glory of Indian History ordanized by Bhartiya Itihas Sakalan Samiti at Giia Sadan, Kurukshctra on 10 November 2013. Paper Presented: Harappan Civilization and Saraswati River: An Appraisal.

2013. National Seminar on Archaeology and literature ordanized by Department of Ancient History, T'lilture and Archaeology, Punjab University, Chandigarh on 7-8 October 2013. Paper Presented: Harappan Civilization: A Fresh Observation on the Settlement System.

2012. International Conference on Harappan Archaeology organized by the Archaeology Survey of India at Chandigarh on 27-29 Oelobcr 2012- . Paper Presented: Uiiderstaiuiing the Settlement System of the Harappan Culture beyond the Saraswati-Darsadwati Valley.

2010. National Conference on llcccnt Advance in Indian Afcharology ordanized by Department of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, M.S.University, Baroda on 3-4 December 2010 Poster Presented: Harappan Ci\ ilizadun in Ihc Southcrn Haryana with special References to Bhiwani Distrisl.

2006. 11'" Congress of Rock Art Society of Iiidia or joined, Bhanpura Itihas Parishad, held at Smt. Kamala Saklecha Gyan Mandir Bhanpura , District Mandsaur (M.P.) on 28^30 December 2006.

Workshops/Exhibition: 2018. Participated in the work.shop of Awareness, Prevention aiid Prohibition of Sexual Harassment in Universities organized by Univcn-ity Cell Agsinst Sexual Harassment, B. P. S. M. Vishwavidyalaya, Khanpur ICalan, Sonipat on 26'' Nov 2018.

2018. Organized the Exhibhition on 'Haiyana Day Celibration' (H Novenber 2107) held at Department of History and Arciiaeology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh. 2017. Organized the Photo lixhibhition on 'Haryana Day Cclibralion' (!'' Novenber 2107) he'^at Department of History and Archaeology. Central Ijn^^•crsi[Y ofl larsnna. Mahendragarh. 2016. Organized the Exgibilion ofTigrana Excavation CuilLirai tVlaieriar at the Harappan site of Tigrana, District Bhiwani, Haryana on 22 May 2016. 2014. Participated in the workshop of History, Heritage and CiiUure organized by Department of History, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak on 26th Ecbuaray 20i4. 2012. Participated in the workshop of Water Management, Past and ruture- An Archaeological Perspective, organized by Society of South Asian Arcliaeology (SOSAA) held at Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune on 13th October 2012.

Publications: (Books) 2019. Harappan Civilizaioii Beyond die SaraswaidDrishadvaii I'adey. New Delhi: Research India Press. (Research Articles) 2017. Tigrana: A Harappan SettlemeiU in Southwest Ilaryana. Proceedings oj die Haryana History Congress P' Session (Eds. R.C. Thakran). pp. 78-85. Published by Haryana Histoiy Congress. 2016. ^ ^i'Tfnr yjcnf^ 86-92. 2015. Explorations in the Vicinity of 'losham Hill Complex, Bhiwani District, Haryana. Manisusma, Volume 2 (Eds. Vinay Kumar and Brijesh Rawal). pp. 49f498. Delhi: B. R. Publishing Corporation.

2015. Subsistence Economy of the Harappan Civilization in the Upper Saraswati Basin. A Bouquet ofIndian Heritage, Research and Management, Volume 1 (Eds. P.Srivaslava and S. K. Mahapatra), pp. 229-246. Delhi; Sv/ati Publications, (with Vasant Shindc)

2015. Eastern Hakra Phase; the First Agriciiitural Community in the Upper Saraswati Basin. A Bouquet ojIndian Heritage, Research and Manageincni^ Volume ! (''.ds. P. Srlvastava and S. K. Mahapatra), pp. 247-260. Dcllii: Swati Publications, (with Vasaiit SIdndc)

2014-15. Excavation at Gancshwar, Sikar, Rajastl'ian-2013: A Preliminary Report. Bharati 39: 13-28.(with R. N. Singh and others)

2014-15. Small Scale Excavation at Klianak. Bhiwa:u-2014: A Harappan Site in Tosham Mining Area, Haryana. Bharati 39: 82-97. (with R. N. Singh and others)

2014. Origin, Development and Decline of the First Urbanization in the Upper Saraswati Basin. Heritage: Journal of Multidisplinary Studies in Archaeology 2: 862-882. A

2013. Mai'appan SctticnK-nt Syslcni and liconomic Slaliis in the Semi-arid zone, Bhiwani District, Haryana. HeriUi^c: Jouruai of MuhidispUnary S/iidies in Archaeology 1; 515-538. (with Appu Sharan, Vikas Pawar and \^ijay Kumar)

2013. Excavations at ICliera r. ar Mcham (2000-10), District Rohtak, Haryana. Puratatlva 43: 158-163. (with R.C. Thakran w.-i odiL-rsj

2013. Harappan Divilizalion: l-.mcrtdny Nev Piclurc in Hanuinangarh District, Rajasthan. Heritage: Journal of Muiddisplinary Siudie.-: in . Irchaeology 1:515-538. (with Vikas Pawar and Appu Sharan)

2013. Rakhigarhi and niirapyu ('ivili/alinn, itcccnl. work and new Challenges. Bulletin of Deccan College Post Gradiu;:: nd Rcsrarch hisiiliilc .(with Vasant Shinde and others)

2013. The Cultural TransCornrninji di d-.c .Iida^'' P!ock. District .lind, Haryana. Pracyabodha vol. 2 (Eds. B.R.Kdani), pp. 21 i-222. DcHii: li.lKC.'i' ■y-cralion. (with Appu Sharan)

2013. Fresh Light on the Prmc-i Sciilci . nt in Mansa District, Punjab. Heritage: Journal ofMuhidispUnary Studies ir . ' - V/ )le \ : ' S\ 4. (with Appii Sharan and others)

2013. Recent Discovery of ,,e Pit Dv/ciliu: complxcs from Farmana-ll, District Rohtak, Haryana. Idhus Ourpun !" '2': ^ 12 ^22. u ■ ' -yti .^liaran ant! others)

2012-13. Economic Suslainabiiiiy olhlic l iar;:;); ;m Civilization beyond the Saraswati-Drasdwati Valley. Bharaii 37: 47-56.

2011-12. Excavation on l i: . ■ .n . i'r '.iMth ■ (2009) District Bhiwani, Haryana. Bulletin of Deccan College Post Crud'- w ' L u Institute 70-71." 1-14. (with R.C. Thakran and others)

2011-12. Protohistoric .'■huh: l':iuic;i ' 'he Bawani Rhera Block, District Bhiwani, Haryana. BItarad 35: 1 17-122. ' i' i- ^A!,as 'ku :•)

2011-12. The Late i (arape • the Gluutgar basin. Bulletin of Deccan college Post Graduate and BesC'.. ■ ■ ' "L ' •I. f-rddi Vasant Shinde and others)

201 1. Archaeological Iiwe.-d; [ion- in 'cuf ' Haryana. i\'lan and Environment XXXVI (2): 58-65.

2010. Excavation on Manlu' ' ' 'OPt a';d . -ploratioMS in its Environs, District Bhiwani, Haiyana,/imV/vf/ I: 128-1:2, ■ ■ , ' ' 2 a.id odier.A

2010. Further Excavations a. .w . ; Am '-1 Ih.siriel .Ihajjar, Haryana. Pi/ra/fl/fvw 40: 208- 213. (with R.C. Thaki'iin a.rd . ' • !■

2009-10. Joint Coins Issue orKushana ;atd , ' .'pecial Ilclcrence to Nortn Ir^a), Bharati 34: 54-64. (with Vikas Pawar)

2009. Settlement Patterns of the Hara-;\in (Jaherc . "hiuani Block, District Bhiwani (Haryana), 2: 201-210.

2008-09. Recent Explorations in Ihc Bh'v C':e .. i islri:. i^Jiiwani (Haryana). Bulletin of Deccan College Post Graduate and Rcsccrc. . -! ! 2.

(Populer Articles) 2013. Rakhigarhi and Harappan Civili/aUo i i;ec:in . d n-w Challenges. Explore Rural India:\6-2\. (with Vasant Shinde and others)

Projects Directed: •t* Tigrana Archaeological Research 1 rcMee;.:. '-un'iju !i\' Central University of Haryana (from 2016 to till date).

Invited Lectures: ❖ Ch. Bansi Lai University. Bhiwani, 1 .• • • '.U mnl 20 ! • Topic: Origin and Deyrfapinr:;/ of J ' n Ancient India. Honours/Awards/Scholarships: ^ Member. Haryana Academy of Histi .'nd ; :!l', .e ■ r/ci'mnenl of Haiyana (June 2016 to till date). > Member, Executive Conimiltcc, Ha!;>.M,a i iis'ory v.'oneres^ "2016 to till date). > Dr. Silak Ram Scholarship (2006), h'. 0. ei; ' 'nak.

Research Interests: South Asian Protohistoiy, Field Archaeology '.iJ Se:dei,^. v y.^.em Life time Membership of Societies: *> Indian Archaeological Society (IAS) Indian Society for Prehistoric and Qi • ■■■.; : •' ' n . iiiOQS) ❖ Society of South Asian Archaeology ■ ❖ Haiyana History Congrcs.s (HHS)

Declaration: I hereby declare that the information that I I .• e hirh.'^Iwd is nuliie'.'t'.e and true to the best of my knowledge

Date: Place; Mahendergarh (Narender Parmar) From

The Director Archaeology & Museums Department, Haryana Sector-10, Chandigarh

To

Dr.Narender Parmar • Department ofHistory and Archaeology Central University of Haryana, Jant Pali, Distt Mahendergarh, Haryana

Memo no. 17/24/2017/pura/

Dated:

Subject: NOC for excavation at Tighrana (TRN-I) Distt. Bhiwani Haryana for the Field Season 2020-21.

Kindly refer to your application dated 29.07.2020 on the subject

stated above. In this regard, you are hereby directed to send the Excavation Report Session 2019-20 along with list of findings (artefacts) with photographs and details of antiquity register. After that case may be proceed further for

issuance of NOC.

/ Assistant Director mov Director Archaeology & Museums Deptt, C Haryana Chandigarh Dairy. K, . S'^ C3iTl3il /^cMQ No* I ...•¥•• Archaeology Haryana / Forwarded copy of Application forjXfcIit?.2£ Khanak Excavations /-T/ / Ravindra Nath Singh Tue, Sep 15. 2020 at 3:03 PUty^i To: Archaeology Haryana ' ^

The Superintendent Dated: 3 August, 2020 c/o The Principal Secretary, Archaeology & Museums, Government of Haryana, Art and Design Building, Sector-10, Chandigarh-160011

Subject : Application for Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani, Haryana

Dear Sir,

Please find attached herewith the application for the Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani, Haryana during the Field Season 2020-2021 for the kind approval and NOG by the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Haryana. .

Another set- of the application has been sent to The Director (EE), Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India, 24 Tilak marg, New Delhi- IIOOOI for the kind considerations of the Standing Committee of the Archaeological Survey of India.

In this context, I would like to bring to your kind notice that the same proposal was approved by your Department and the ASI but work could not be undertaken due to Covidl9. I request you to forward your kind approval & NOG to the Archaeological Survey ofIndia at your earliest.

An advance copy of the proposal has already been sent by email and Hard copy is dispatched by Speed Post

Yours sineerely,

Prof. R.N.Singh

Eiicl.: Application for Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani, Haryana. Dr. Ravindra N. Singh Professor, Deputy Coordinator (CAS-UGC)& Principal Investigator (India) BHU-Cambridge ERC & DST-UKIERI Project Hon. Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge Department of AIHC & Archaeology Banaras Hindu University Varanasl-221005, India Tel.+91 542 2570755(R) +91 542 2307436(O) websites; titlpj/intsmet.bfiu.ac.ln/alhc/rii.!!lm http://vAVW.arch.cam.ac.uk/rivers/ -

+^1) ASI Application of R N singh for khanak Excvatlons.pdf ^ 5484K APPLICATION FOR CARRYING OUT EXPLORATION / EXCAVATION AT AREAS OTHER THAN PROTECTED FOR THE FIELD SEASON 2020-21 i 1. Name of the Project (Exploration/ Excavation): Excavations at Khanak, Bhiwani 2. Name and address of.the applicant (Enclose Brief Profile) Brief C.V. attached. (If the application is on behalf of an institution, the name thereof should be given) Prof. Ravindra Nath Singh, Director, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeoiogy, BHU Dr. Vikas Kumar Singh, Co-Director, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeoiogy, BHU In Collaboration with Haryana State Department of Archaeology & Museums

3. Name of the site: Khanak Locality; Tosham District; ' Bhiwani State: Haryana

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4. Details of previous studies/brief report on work, if any

The Khanak has been excavated on limited scale under direction of R.N. Singh, Centre of Advanced Study. Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University with the financial support from the Archaeological Survey of India. Government of India, New Delhi during the session 2013-2014 & 2015-2016 [iAR, 2013-2014 & lAR, 2015-2016)

During our limited excavations of three weeks during field season 2013-2014 only five trenches were laid down wz.: A-l, A-2, A-3, A-4 & A-5 at different places in the School ground. All trenches except A-5 were quite productive having Early Maiuro Marappar cultural materials. A-5 was a recent filling of earth. Maximum cullural deposit was 1.50 in." Although we could not dig up to the natural soil, but an appreciable range of cultural materials were recovered belonging to Early Harappan & Mature Harappans.

The most common material recovered was fragments of fired ceramic vessels of various types. Amongst the antiquities, steatite beads figured highest in number (more than 200), but there were also arrange of other small finds including copper celt, TO cakes (idly shaped & triangular), beads of semi-precious stone including lapis lazuli and large number of slag showing metallu/gical activities In the vicinity.

During our excavations in the field season 2015-2016, sixteen trenches were laid down viz.: A-01 to A-16. In addition, a Section Cutting Trench B-01 was exposed quite near to Khanak Hills In the area of recent mining. Amongst the above mentioned trenches, Trenches A-01, A-02, A-03, A-04 & A-05 which were excavated during field season 2013- 2014 have been re-opened for further digging. A site plan was also prepared utilizing Total Station Survey with courtesy of the University of Cambridge. All trenches except A-5 were quite productive having Early & Mature Harappan cultural materials. A-5 was a recent filling of earth. In order to assess the extension of the site, a section was exposed quite close to Khanak hills in recent mining area named as Trencii B-01 which was also quite productive having both Early & Mature Harappan cultura! materials suggesting a cluster of other settlements at different places in entire Khanak village. Maximum cultural deposit was 2.65 m. A six rooms complex of Early Harappan Period along with a gallery running In Trenches A-01/A-05. 06, 08. 11.12,13, 15 and 16 were exposed.

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Khanak appears to have been occupied in the Early Harappan, and early and late Mature Harappan phases. Lohari Rag^o I appear to have been occupied in the Early Harappan, and early Mature Harappan phases, but somewhat surprisingly we have a late Mature date from L.511. L.564 is early Medieval, and there is a modern date.'Masudpur appears to have been occupied in the late Mature Harappan phase (earlier phases dated previously), and we have a modern date.

Considering AMS dates from Khanak showing metallurgical activities since Early Harappan period, we intends to take a few trenches in mining area where'^we have done a section scrapping during 2015-2016 in order to recover evidence of metallurgical activities.

5. Project statement and objectives; time frame Our Preliminary study, of the slag suggests that the region would have been an important resourcearea for many verities of metals, minerals, stones (procured from Aravalli hills) and must have provided much needed functional trade routes facilitating the smooth flow of trade items from one place to another.

The prime objective of the proposed small scale excavation is to assess the cultural materials of Early HaratDpans and Mature Harappans particularly in the context of the , exploitations of stone and minerals. Kochar has reported the mining of tin in this region of Aravallis and Randall Law has postulated that a few of the Harappan stones have been exploited from this part of haryana. Hence it is being proposed to: •^1" ;

a. Carry out further excavations at Khanak to establish complete cultural sequence, obtain datable material for Radiometric dating (AMS). V b. Collect different geological & mining samples for provenance study, c. Collect archaeobotanical and archaeozoologlcal materials, d. Collect soil samples for phytoilth study and OSL dating; e. T0 construct furnaces and mining activity areas at the site, if any; f. To explore ancient mining area In the vicinity. •

6. Extent of the proposed excavation or operation (A plan of the site In triplicate showing in red outline the extent of the proposed excavation or operation to bo attached) Khanak is In Imminent danger of being destroyed by agricultural and occupational aclivities.. We intend to carry out focussed excavations in order to characterise the sequence of occupation at the site and collections of samples. This will comprise of a few 5 x 5m targeted trenches designed to Identify the depth of deposit in different areas. Time Frame: Excavations work will be undertaken between October, 2020 to February. 2021.

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7. Approximate expenditure and the anticipated funding Expenditure: Rs.600,000/, Rs. 200.000/ through support from Project Funds along with funds from the Department. Rest of amount Is anticipated from the Governrhent funding agencies. The expenses for AMS dating and scientific studies may be met out from other sources,

8. Composition of the team Dr. R.N.Singh Director/Excavator - Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHD, Dr. VIkas K. Singh Co- Director, Excavator, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Dr.R.P.Singh Archaeologist/Excavator, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Dr. P.P.Joglekar Deccan College, Pune Dr. D.P.Singh Research Assistant, Lab..Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology. BHU Mr. A.K. Pandey Draftsman/Surveyor, Department of A.I.H.C. & Archaeology, BHU Prof. Amar Singh Archaeologist, MD University, Rohtak, Haryana Dr. VIkas Pawar Archaeologist. MD University, Rohtak, Haryana Dr. Appu Sharan Student Archaeologist, MD University, Rohtak; Haryana Dr. Narendra Pramar Archaeologist, Central University Haryana. Dr. Amit Ranjan Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU.

4' Dr. S. Chakradhari Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHD Dr.' Aftab Alam Student Archaeologist. Department of AIHC &-Arch., BHD Shri Sunil K Singh Student Archac-oiogist, Department of AIHC & Arch,. BHU Km. AratI Chaudhary Student Archaeologist. Department of AIHC & Arch.. BHU Shri Brij Mohan Student Archaeologist. Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU Shri Abhay P Singh Student Archaeologist, Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU Km UrvashI Singh Student Archaeologist. Department of AIHC & Arch., BHU

^Further collaboration with the Deccan College. Pune and BSIP, Lucknow will be made for archaeozoological and archaeobotanlcal studies after excavations.

For details of experience, please see separate sheet.

9. Collaborator, If any I am currently collaborating with the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge which may provide me the opportunity for the scientific studies of the materials through the Departments of Geography and Geosciences at Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College London, IIT Kanpur and the RLAHA at Oxford.

10. Plan for the preservation and maintenance and proper scientific storage of excavated remains and material. Approximate Expenditure and Funding After the excavations, trenches will be backfilled to prevent accidents and to preserve the archaeological remains. The cultural material recovered from the site will be stored In the archaeological work space at BHU, thus making it accessible for researchers. Our Department is fully equipped, No funding Is required.

11. Provision for proper scientific storage of the excavated materials and photo I drawing documentation \ As noted above, the cultural material recovered from the site will be stored in the archaeological work space at BHU, thus making it accessible for researchers. Botanical, -zodloglcal and soil samples will be'stored in a suitable manner; .and systematic-analysis will be taken out by the collaborators and their students. All registered cuUural and ceramic material will be photographed and/or drawn, and.these images will be used for publicalion.

12. Stage of submission of the report(s) on exploration (s) I excavatlon(s) taken up by theapplicant I Institution

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The status of the reports on previous exploration/excavation are as follows: Year Name of the site 2008 Alamgirpur— report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2008 2008 Bulandkhera- report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2008 2009 Masudpur I - report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2009 2009 Masudpur VII (season 1)- report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review \r) 2009 2009 Explorations in Rakhigarhi Hinterland, Indian Archaeology: A Review In 2009 2010 Masudpur VII (season 2)r- report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2010 2010 Bur] - report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review ]n 2010 2010 Explorations in Ghaggar Hinterland Survey, Indian Archaeology: A Reviey/\n 2010* 2011 Dabli vas Chugta - report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Rewevv in 2011 2012 Bahola - report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2012 2013 Ganeshwar— report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review In 2013 2014 Explorations Iri Rakhigarhi Hinterland Surveyjndian Archaeology: A Rev/ewin 2014 2014 Khanak— report published to Indian Archaeology: A Review \n 2014 2015 Lohari Ragho submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review \n 2015 2016 Khanak— report submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review\n 2016 2017 Lohari Ragho submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2017 2018 Masudpur I submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2018 2019 Masudpur I submitted to Indian Archaeology: A Review in 2018

The following PhD research projects have developed out of this work: Completed Yama Dixit (Gates)- Palaeoclimate In India (Earth Sci)(Cantab 2009 - 2013)^, • Sayantani Neogi - geoarchaeology on the Haryana Plains (Cantab 2009 - 2013) Jennifer Bates - Indus archaeobotany (Cantab 2011-2015) Penny Jones - Indus climate and Isotopes (Cantab 2012-2017) Manisha Singh, Harappan Legacy in Ganga Valley, 2013. Vibha Pandey, Archaeology of Northwest India, BHU, 2016 Amit Ranjan- Archaeology of Ghaggar River Basin, BHU, 2019. On-going Danika Parikh - Indus Civilisation pottery in NW India (Cantab 2010-present) Akshyeta Suryanarayan - Indus Civilisation residues (Cantab 2015-present) Alene Gieshe - Indus palaeoclimate (Cantab 2016-present) Jean-Phillipe Boudaln - Indus weather modelling (Cantab 2016-present) Joanna Walker - Indus geoarchaeology ((Jantab 2016-present) Alessandro Ceccarelli - Indus ceramic production (Cantab 2016-present) Arti Chaudhary- Archaeology of in the hinterland of Rakhigarhi, BHU.

Stage of publication of final reports Final reports of our limited excavations at Alamgirpur, Masudpur I, Masudpur VII. Burj, Dabll vas Chugta, Bahola, Khanak and Lohari Ragho are under preparation.

Preliminary and more developed analysis of the results of our fieldwork have been reported in follovmg publications: ^

2019 Parikh. D. and Petrie, OA 2019.'We are inheritors of a rural civilisation'; rural complexity and the ceramic econorny In the Indus Civilisation in northwest India. World Archaeology 50.5: 1-21 [online 18 June, DOI: httDS://doi.orQ/10.1080/00438243.2019.16014631. 2019 Petrie, C.A., Orengo, H., Green, A.S., Walker. J.R.. Garcia, A., Conesa, F.. Knox, J.R. and Singh, R.N. 2019. Mapping archaeology while mapping an empire: using historical maps to reconstruct settlement landscapes in India and Pakistan, Geosciences 9.1:11 (1-26) [online first 25 December 2018; httos://doi.ora/10.339Q/Qeosciences9Ql 00111. 2019' Green.Adam S!, Hector.A'.'Orengd, Aftab Alafn,'ATnau Garcia, Lillian M. Green,- Francesc Conesa, Amit Ranjan, Ravihdra Nr Singhand Cameron A. Petrie, Re-discovering ancient landscapes: archaeological survey of mound features from historical maps in northwest India and implications for investigating the large-scale distribution of cultural heritage sites in South Asia. Remote Sensing, in press. 2018 Dixit. v., Hodell, D.A., Giesche, A.. Tandon, S.K.. G^zquez, F., Saini. H.S.. Skinner, L., Mujtaba, S.A.I.. P^war, V.. Singh. R.N. and Petrie, C.A. 2013. Intensified Indian summer monsoon and the urbanization "of the Indus Civilization in northwest India, Scientific Reports 8:4225 [online first 09 March 2018; doi: httDs://doi.ora/10.1038/s41598-018- 22504-51. ■ < . 2018 Green, A.S. andPetrie, C.A. 2018. Landscapes of urbanisation and de-urbanization: integrating site location datasets from northwest India to investigate changes in the Indus Civilization's settlement distribution, Journal ofField Archaeology AZ.A: 284-299 [online first May 11, 2018; httos://doi.QrQ/10.1080/0Q934690.2018.14643321. 2018 Orengo, H.A. and Petrie, C,A. 2018. Multi-Scale Relief Model(MSRM): a new algorithm for the analysis of subtle topographic change in digital elevation models, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43.6:1361-1369 [online first 14 December 2017; https://doi.oro/1Q.1002/esD.4317: impact factor 3.697). 2018 Pawar, V., Singh, R.N., and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Harappan settlement pattern on the desert margin with special reference to Hanumangarh District, Indian Journal of Archaeology 2.3: 20-30. 2018 Singh, R.N. Petrie, C.A., Pandey, A.K., Singh, D.P.. Singh. V.K. and Singh. M. 2018. Recent excavations at Khanak. Bhiwani, Haryana-2016:,A Harappan site in northwest India, Bhara//40: 15-25., 2018 Singh, R.N., Green, A-S... Green, l^.M., Ranjan, A., Alam, A. and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Between the Hinterlands: Preliminary Results from the TwoRains Survey in Northwest India 2017, Man and Environment A2.2: 84-101 v 2018 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., Alarh, A. Bates, J. Ceccarelli, A.. Chakraborty, S.. Chakradhari, S., Chowdhary, A. Dixit, Y.. French, C.A.I.. Gieshe, A., Green, AS.. Green, L.M.. Jones. P.J.. Llghtfoot, E., Pandey. A.K., Pawar, V., Ranjan, A, Redhouse, P.!.. Singh, D.P., 6 • Suryanarayan, A.. Ustunkaya, M.C. and Walker, J.R. 2018, Living in the hinterland 1: survey and excavations at Lohari Ragho 2015-2017. Puratatlva 48: 130-141. 2017 Bates. J., Petrie. C.A., and Singh, R.N. 2017. Approaching rice domestication in South Asia: nevi/ evidence from Indus'settlements In northern India, Journal of Archaeological Science 78: 193-201 [dol: httD://dx.doi.oro/10.1016/Lias.2016.Q4.018l 2017 Bates, J., Petrie, C.A. and Singh, R.N. 2017. Cereals, calories and change: exploring approaches to quantification in Indus archaeobotany. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences [online first httD://dx.doi.ora/10.1007/s12520-017-Q489-21. 2017 Bates, J., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. 2017. Exploring Indus crop processing: combining phytoliths and macrobotanical analysis to consider the organisation of agriculture In northwest India C.3200-1500BC. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (special issue) 26:25-^1 fpublished online 21 May 2013: doi: htto://dx.doi.ora/10.1007/R00334.nin.nfi7!=;. 9], ; 2017- .French, C.A.I., Sulas, F. and Petrie, C.A. 2017. Expanding the v/ider potential research parameters of geoarchaeology: case studies from Aksum in Ethiopia and Haryana in India, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences onWne first, March 16. 2014 •fhttp://dx.dQ}.orQ/10.10Q7/s12520-014-Q186-.31 2017 Joglekar, P.P., Singh, R.N. and Petrie. C;A. 2017. Fauna! Remains from Sanipolia Khera (Masudpur I). Haryana, Indian Journal of Archaeology 2.1: 25-60. 2017 Parikh, D. and Petrie, C.A. 2017. Urban-rural dynamics and Indus ceramic production in northwest India: a preliminary analysis of the pottery from Masudpur I and Masudpur VII. In Lef6vre. V., DIdier, A./and Mutin, B. (ed.). South Asian Archaeology 2012: Man and Environment in Prehistoric and Protohistoric South Asia: New Perspectives. Indicopleustoi. Brepols, Turnhout: 221-241. 2017 Petrie, C.A. 2017. Crisis, what crisis? Adaptation, resilience and transformation in the Indus Civilisation, in Cunningham. T. and Drlessen, J. (eds) Crisis to Collapse: The Archaeology of Social BreaKdown, Aegis Publications, UC Louvain: 43-64. 2017 Petrie, C.A. and Bates, J. 2017.'Multi-cropping', intercropping and adaptation to variable environments In the Indus Civilisation, Journal of World Prehistory 30; 81-130 fhtto://dx.doi.oro/10.10Q7/s.l0963-Q17-9101-z). 2017 Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N., Bates. J., Dixit, Y.. French, C.A.I, Hodell, D.. Jones, P.J., Lancelotti, C., Lynam, F., Neogi, S., Pandey, A.K.. Parikh, D./Pawar, V., Redhouse, D.I., Singh, D.P. 2017. Adaptation to variable environments, resilience to climate change: Investigating Land, Water and Settlement in northwest India, Current Anthropology 5B.V. 1-30 fhttp://www.iournals.uchicaao.edu/doi/full/10 1086/6901121. 2017 Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N.. French. C.A.I., Bates. J,. Lancelotti, C., Neogi, S.. Pandey, A.K., Parikh. D., Pawar, V. and Redhouse. D.I. 2017. Land, Water and Settlement in northwest - India 2008-2012: a review of progress, in Leffevre, V., DIdier, A. and Mutin, B. (ed.). South ■ Asian Archaeology 2012: Man and Environment in Prehistoric and Protohistoric South Asia: New Perspectives, Indicopleustoi, Brepols, Turnhout; 243-255. 2016 Bates, J. and Petrie, C.A. 2016. Phytollth analysis and the Indus Civilisation: a review, Man and Environment 61.2: 32-49. 2016 Joglekar, P.P., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, OA 2016. A PreHininary report of animal remains from Bhimwada Jodha (Masudpur VII), Haryana, Bharati39:1-9. 2016 Petrie, C.A., Bates, J., HIgham, T. and Singh, R.N, 2016. Feeding ancient cities in South Asia: dating the adoption of rice, millet and tropical pulses in the Indus Civilisation, Antiquity 90.354:(1489-1504 [doi: https://doi.arQ/10.15184/aav.2Q16.210]. 2015 Singh, R.N., Petrie, G.A., et al. 2015. Excavations at Masudpur. Hissar District, Haryana; April 16 - May 12, 2009, BHU and University of Cambridge Archaeological Project, Indian Archaeology: A Review 2000-2009: 55-71. 2015 Dixit, Y., Hodeil, D.A,, Sinha, R, and Petrie. C.A. 2015. Oxygen isotope analysis of multiple, single ostracod valves as a proxy for combined variability in seasonal temperature and lake water oxygen isotopes, JoPL 53: 35-45,[online 11 October 2014, http://dx.doi.orQ/10.1007/s 10933-014-9805-31. 2014 Dixit, Y., Hodeil, D.A., SInha, R, and Petrie, C.A. 2014. Abrupt weakening of the Indian summer monsoon^,at 8.2 kyr B.P., EPSL 391:16-23 fhtto://dx.doi.orQ/10.1016/i.epsl.2Q14.01.0261. 2014 Dixit, Y., Hodeil, D.A. and Petrie, C.A. 2014. Abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon In northwest India -4100 year ago. Geology 42: 339-342 ihttp://dx.doi.orQ/10.113Q/G35236.11. 7 2013 Singh, R.N.. Petrie. C.P.. Joglekar. P.P., Neogi, S., Lancelottl, C.. Pandey, A.K. and ^ Pathak," A. 2013. Recent Excavations at Alamgirpur, Meerut District; A Preliminary Report* Man and Environment 3Q.^:32'5A. 2013 Singh, R.N. Petrie. C.A., Bates. J., Joglekar, P.P., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Singh, V.K. and Singh, D.P. 2013. Survey and excavations at Bahola, District Kama!, Haryana: A Preliminary Report, BhSratT37:27'37. District. Rajasthan, Puratatlva A2: 133-147. 2013 Singh, R.N., Cameron A. Petrie, Pramod P.Joglekar, SayantanlNeogi, CarLancelotti.Arun K. Pandey'&Anub)ia Pathak* Recent Excavations at Alamgirpur, Meerut: APrellminary Report, Man & Environment. XXXVIII(I), 2013, pp. 32-54 2012 Singh, R.N.. Petrie, C.A., French, C.A.. Bates, J., Pqndey, A.K., Parikh, Lancelolti, C. ^ and Redhouse, D.I. 2012, Survey and excavations at Dabli-vas Chugta, Hanumangarh. 2012 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., J. Bates,.A.K. Pandey, D. Parikh and D.P.Singh, Survey andExcavations at Bahola. Kamal District, Haryana: March 27-April, 17, 2012, Manaviki- Journal of Humanities <& Social Sciences, Vol. Ill (2)-IV (1), pp.5-11, {ISSN 0975-7880), Varanasi. 2012 Singh, R. N., Petrie,C.A., C.A'.I.French and D.I.Redhouse, Geoarchaeoiogical Survey and Unearthing Cultural Assemblages at Dabli vas ChugtaBharati. Vol. 36, pp. 57-71. 2011 Petrie, Cameron, Ravindra Singh & Charles French, Land, Water and Settlement: Dabli Vas Chugta, Archaeology at Cambridge, Annual Report McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research. Cambridge, 33. ^ 2010 Singh. R.N., Petrie, C.A., French. C.A., Neogl. S.. Pandey, A.K.. Parikh, D. and Pawar, V. 2010. Geoarchaeological survey and excavations at Burj, Fatehabad, Haryana, Pt;rafatfva,40: 94-101. 2010 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., Pawar, V,, Pandey, A.K., Neogi, S.. Singh, M.. Singh, A.K. Parikh, D. and Lancelotti, C. Changing Pattern of Settlement in the rise and fall of Harappan Urbanism and beyond: A Preliminary Report on the Rakhigarhi Hinterland Survey 2009, Man & Enviivnment, 35.1: 37-53. 2009 Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N. and Singh, A.K. Investigalitjg Changing Settlement Dynamics on the Plains: The 2009 Survey and Excavations at Masudpur (Hissar District, Haryana), Puraffava, No.39,38-49. ' "2009 "Singh, R.N. and Petriej C.A? LdsVrivers and Life on the Plains-Approaches to understanding Human Environment interaction between the Collapse of Indus Urbanism and the rise of Early Historic Cities, Saraswaf/ River-A Perspective (Ed, A.R.Chaudhri), Kurukshetra. 102-111. 2009 Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A. Singh, A.K. and Singh, M. Excavations at Masudpur (Hissar, Haryana): A Preliminary Report. Bharati, Vol. 33. 35-49. 2009 Petrje, C.A. and Singh, R.N. Land, Water and Settleijient In Haryana, India, Archaeology at Cambridge:2009. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. 29. 2009 Singh, R.N., Singh, A.K. and Petrie, G.A. Excavations at Alamgirpur, Meerut, India, paper presented at Workshop on VKIERI's Land, Water and Settlement Project. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, June, 2009. 2009 Singh, R.N. and Petrje, C.A. Land, water and Settlement; Environmental Conslrainls and Human responses in Northwest India between 2000BC to 300BC, Environment of Ancient India, Mono9raph-No.21, AlHC & Archaeology, BHU, Varanasi (eds. P.N. Singh et a/.). 105-108. 2008 Petrie C.A. and Singh, R.N. investigating cultural and geographical transformations from the collapse of Harappan urbanism to the rise the great Early Historic cities: a note on the Land. Water and Settlement Project. South Asian Studies 24: 37-36. 2008 Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. An Archaeological and Geographical Reconnaissance of western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana: April 4 -15 and May 21, 2008, Bharati 32:1-15. 2008 Singh, R.N. Petrie, C.A., et al. Settlements in Context: Reconnaissance in western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, April and May 2008. Man and Environment 33.2; 71-87. Preliminary and more final results have also been presented at the following workshops, conferences and invited lectures (2018 onward only):

2019 Conference presentation - Bates, J., Singh, R.N., and Petrie. C.A. A view from , __ disentangling 'multi-cropping', agricultural adaptation and resilience In the Indus Civilisation. IWGP, Lecce, 03 June 2019 Conference presentation - Ustunkaya. M.C., Wright. N., Singh, R.N.. and Pelrie, G.A. Environmental choices of Indus populations. IWGP, Lecce, 03 June ' 2019 Conference presentation \ M. Cemre Ustunkaya. Nathan Wright. Andrew Fairbairn. Ravindra Nalh Singh Cameron A. Petne A cornpari.son of the 4.2k BP event from Indus River Basin to. Central Anatolia, 4.2 ' ka BP in Anatolia. The Cnsis Years and Aftermath, University of ya§ar. Izmir,.17-t8 May. Wright. R. N. Singh. G.A. Petrie. At the fringe of Indus civilisation- -cro-botanica. N., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. Oont put all your eggs In one basket":J.-P.. Giesche,modelling A. cropping Ustunkaya. slrateqies M.C.. Wrightand ' climate change In the Indus Civilisation. CAA 2019. Krakow. 23 April. 5>ird[egies ana 2019 Conference presentation-Green, A.. Alam. A.. Green. L.M..Ranjan. A.. Singh RN and Petrie CA geoSr^SarTatc^T^^^ Kmkt!23 Ap'ril^' Singh, R.N.. Petrie, G.A. Holocene landscape dynamics of the Ghaggar-HakraSharan, A., fiuvial Gupta. system S.. Orenoo. India- H A nnplications for the Indus Civilisation, "GeoarchBeologlcal records of human-landscape interaction" from a nature-dominated world to the Anthropocene". EGU 2019, Vienna. 7-12 April 'nieraciion. irom a Wnght. R.N. Singh and C A Petrie. How to 'downsize' a complex^^-^douin'. society; A. Giesche. experiments M. Cemre with Ustunkaya agent-based N models to assess the resilience of Indus Civilisation settlements to climate change "Socio- Environmental

2019 Workshop Presentation - Adam S. Green. S. DIxit. K. Garg, S. Neelaram S.. G. Singh. K. Valta A Whilbraad intlrmprhni-cf'mtegraled, hoh^ic andH comparative approach to applying lessonsmanagement from the strategies past to India's resilient? aaricutlure An "Socio

M.K. Jones, R.N. Singh, and C.A.?■ S"":"'Petrie. Tanks and towns: an explorationS- Neelaram,of different G.paths Singh, tov/ard A. Whilhread Telangana, ThirdTh" Ji'^f" International South Asia,Seminar. empTCs Hyderabad. and Kingdoms 19-20 January. o! DakshloSpaIha with Special Reference to 2018 Conference presentation -Suryanarayan. A., Cubes. M., Craig, 0.. Heron, C.. O'Connell. T.C.. Singh R N Shinde. V. and Petne, C.A., What s rxjoking in the Indus Civilisation?, dth Intematicnat Svn,oosii'm on Biomo/ecu/arArcriaeo/ogy/SSA 2078. Jena. 18-21 September - , ' ' 2018 Conference presentation - Suryanarayan. A., Cubas. M.. Craigi O.. Heron. C., O'Connell. T.C Smgh R N bhinde, V. and Petrie. C.A.. Organic residue analysis as a routine method in archaeology? Opportunities Avenues and Challenges. European Association for Arclweology Conference, Barcelona, Spain 2018 Conference preseritation - C.A. Petrie, R.N. Singh, A. Alam. J. Bates. J-P. Baudouin. A.' Ceccarelli S Chakraborti, S. Chakradan. A, Chcwdhury. Y Dixit. C.A.I. French, A. Garcia. A. Giesche. A. Green. L. Green Redhouse, D.P.A D Singh. A.A Spryanarayan,o M.C, Ustunkaya,O''®"90. A.K.and J.Pandey. Walker. D. From Parikh. Land, V. Pawar,Water and A. Ranjan. Setllemont D.I. to TwoRains: progress in 2016,2017 and 2018, at the Twenty-fourth International Conference of the EASAA turopean Association of South Asiari Archaeologists, Naples. 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Green A.. A. Ranjan, L. Green. A. Alam, R.N. Singh, and C.A. Pelrie. Urban and post-urban intensities: archaeological signature landscapes of nor.lhv/est India, al the Tv/oniy-fourih Wemaf;o/?ay Conference of the EASAA, European Association of 'South Asian Archoeoloyists. Naples. 2-6 2018 Conference presentation - Suryanarayan A., Heron, C.. Craig. O.. Cubas. M.. Singh, R.N., Shinde, v:. o Connell, T.C. and Pelrie. C.A. "What's cooking?" Using ceramic residue analysis to Invesiigale cookinq practices in Indus northwest India, at the Twenty-fourlh Inlemational Conference of the EASAA European Association of South Asian /\rchaeqlogisls, Naples. 2-0 July. 2018 Conference presentation - LIghtfool E.. P.J. Jones, T.C. O'Connell. P. Joglekar. R.N. Singh and C.A. Pelrie. A comparison of animal management practices at Indus sites In Haryana using slable isotope analysis al the Twenty-fouith International Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - Ustunkaya. M.C.. R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie. Indus farming on the desert margins: archaeobotanical evidence from Khanak, Bhiwani. Haryana. India, at the Twenty-fourth Intemathnal Conference of the EASAA, European Assoc/a//on of South Asian Archaeologists. Naples. 2-6 July. 2018 Conference presentation - J. Bates. R.N. Singh. K.D. Thomas and C.A. Petrie. Life on the edge: food ^versity. choice and resilience along the borders of Ihe Indus Civilisation, at the Twenty-fourth International Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. 2018 - Conference poster - J. Walker, C.A.I. French. H. Orengo, V. Pawar. A. Giesche. R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, Buried Indus landscapes: using geoarchaeology to assess human-environment interactions al Loliari Ragho. northwest India, at the Twenty-fourlh International Conference of the EASAA, European Associoiion of South Asian Arcriaeo/og/sfs, Naples. 2-6 July. 2018 - Conference poster - A. Ceccarelli, P. Quinn, R.N. Singh and C.A. Petrie, From rural ceramic production lo ^ communities of practice: a technological reassessment of Indus ceramics from NW India, at the Twenty-fourth '- International Conference of the EASAA, European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Naples, 2-6 July. \ 2018 Invited presentation - Sutyanarayan, A., Cubas, M., Cralg, 0.. Heron. C., O'Connell. T., Singh, R.N. and Petrie, C.A. What's cooking in the Indus Civilisation?. S/rared Tastes Conference, Leiden University, Netherlands, 28-30 June 2018 Invited presentation - Bates, J., Garcia-Granero, J.J., Petrie. C.A., Singh, R.N., fs/ladella. M. and Ajithprasad. P. Cultural Unifier, Local Staple or Exotic Luxury? Food as Material Culture in the Indus Civilisation, South Asia c.3200-1500 BC, Shared Tastes Conference. Leiden University. Netherlands. 28-30 June 2018 Invited presentation - Suryanarayan, A., Cubas, M., Cralg, 0., Heron, C., O'Connell, T.C., Singh. R.N., Shinde, V. and Petrie, C.A., Wiial's In the pot? Characterising natural substances in archaeology through lipid and Isotopic analyses. London Biological Mass Spectromelry Discussion Group, British Museum. London 2018 Invited presentation - Petrie, C.A., Green, A.. Orengo. H., and Singh^ R.N.. Hidden in plain sight: reconstructing landscapes of urbanism in northv/est India, 12 April, SAA Conference, Washington DC, 11-15 April.

13. Any other information The same proposal v/as approved by the Standing Committee of the ASI, Govt; of India following the NOG from the Haryana State Archaeology & Museum vide letter No. T- 17011/40/2019-EE dated 17.03.2019 but due to lockdown because of Covid 19 the work cannot be started.

14. 1 declare that the above information is correct. I also undertake to observe the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 and the rules made there under.

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Memo No. 17/24-2017-Pura/2_6 Dated:

Subject: NOC for excavation at Khanak, District Bhiwani for field season 2020-21.

Reference your email message dated 15.09.2020. The Department has no objection to your proposal to excavate Khanak, Bhiwani, subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:- 1. Antiquities discovered shall vest with the Archaeology and Museums Department, Government of Haryana, other than, those whose which may be compulsorily acquired by the Central Government under section 23(3) of the Central Act 24 of

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