Center for South Asia Noon Lecture Series

This lecture will present the most recent information from excavations at the Harappan site of Shikarpur in Gujarat, India. Excavations have brought to light a fortified settlement that played a major role in the transfer of Harappan technology in economic production into parts of Gujarat. The large volume of evidence unearthed in the excavation reveals a threefold sequence of habitation which shows different degrees of interaction that existed with other cultural regions of Gujarat.