South and Central Asia · Community

Mehrgarh farming communities

c. 7000-2600 BCE; phase boundaries are approximate · Kachi Plain and Bolan Pass

Successive communities at Mehrgarh document long changes in cultivation, herding, mud-brick building, burial practice and craft specialization before Indus urbanism.

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AI-generated evidence-guided visualization related to Mehrgarh farming communities, c. 7000-2600 BCE; phase boundaries are approximate. — AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

How the setting appeared

Low mud-brick compounds, storage units, working yards and cemeteries occupied an alluvial plain near routes through the Bolan Pass.

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How people lived

Households combined farming, herding and seasonal mobility; grave goods reveal differentiation, but excavated remains do not define a single social system across four millennia.

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How people worked

People cultivated barley and wheat, managed cattle, sheep and goats, and used stone, bone and plant materials. Pottery, bead and ornament production became more specialized in later phases, but the excavated sequence does not reveal every task or its division by age, gender or status.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Burial treatment and selected grave goods attest care for the dead, but named deities, doctrines and precise ritual meanings are not recoverable.

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World-atlas stage: Farmers and villages
Region: South Asia · Kachi Plain and Bolan Pass
Languages and scripts: Unattested languages of Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities
Important people: No individual is centered in this record
Events and changes: Establishment of early farming and herding communities; Expansion of ceramic and craft production; Long-term settlement reorganization toward Nausharo
Evidence confidence: High: excavated sequences are substantial, while early phase dates and social interpretations remain approximate.

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Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

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Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-UNESCO-MEHRGARH

Archaeological Site of Mehrgarh

https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1876

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-CAMBRIDGE-SOUTH-ASIA-ARCHAEOLOGY

Introduction and Definitions, The Archaeology of South Asia

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/archaeology-of-south-asia/introduction-and-definitions/F261F83202B05ADE3F9B5A4BA02C9CA2

Cambridge University Press

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