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Mehrgarh

c. 7000-2600 BCE · Pakistan

A long sequence documents early farming, herding, mudbrick settlement and growing craft specialization in South Asia.

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AI-generated evidence-guided visualization related to Mehrgarh, c. 7000-2600 BCE. — 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

Compartmented mudbrick buildings, storage rooms and courtyards stood beside cultivated fields at the edge of the Bolan Pass.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-MEHRGARHCIT-CORE001-MEHRGARH-NATURE Setting and material context · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Families farmed wheat and barley, herded cattle, sheep and goats, and buried people with selected goods.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-MEHRGARHCIT-CORE001-MEHRGARH-NATURE Lifeways and community · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Pottery, bead making, basketry and early cotton use expanded across the sequence.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-MEHRGARHCIT-CORE001-MEHRGARH-NATURE Work, tools and exchange · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

Burial offerings reveal commemoration, but a unified theology cannot be recovered.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-MEHRGARHCIT-CORE001-MEHRGARH-NATURE Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

World-atlas stage: Farmers and villages
Region: South Asia · Pakistan
Languages and scripts: Not named in this record
Important people: No individual is centered in this record
Events and changes: An aceramic farming settlement was established c. 7000 BCE.; Pottery, specialized crafts, and long-distance exchange expanded during the 6th-4th millennia BCE.; Occupation shifted away from Mehrgarh by c. 2600 BCE.
Evidence confidence (generic fallback): No record-specific confidence statement is registered. This generic fallback identifies a metadata gap; it is not an evidence assessment.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-MEHRGARHCIT-CORE001-MEHRGARH-NATURE Dates, place, language, people and events; missing confidence metadata disclosed · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

Map geometry loads only when requested. Modern outlines are orientation only; historical geography and identities changed through time.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-MEHRGARHCIT-CORE001-MEHRGARH-NATURE Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

Each registered source ID is paired with its institutional URL for independent checking. Source count is transparent, and duplicate URLs count only once.

CIT-CORE-MEHRGARH

Mehrgarh: record evidence guide

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

whc.unesco.org

CIT-CORE001-MEHRGARH-NATURE

Early Neolithic tradition of dentistry

https://www.nature.com/articles/440755a

Nature

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