"The excavation at Kunal, one of the earliest Harappan sites in Haryana, aims at bringing out the earliest material culture of the site that might push the history of the civilisation back by over a thousand years," Principal Secretary Department of Archaeology and Museums Sumita Misra said here today.
It has made a great contribution in Harappan studies in the Indian sub-continent and will definitely open new prospects for future research on formation and antecedent stages of Harappans, she said.
The developed drainage system characterises this site which is located in Raita Tehsil of Fatehabad, on the banks of now dried up ancient Saraswati River, Misra said.
"The core area of the settlement is three-four acres but site expands to nine acres. The excavation was first conducted by late J S Khatri and M Acharya under Haryana State Archaeology Department in 1985-86," she said.
Previous excavations have provided significant traits of early Harappan culture in our sub-continent at Kunal which was the first in the history of Harappan studies, an official release said.
Copper smelting furnace was also found along with large number of copper objects and typical Harappan crucible (Terracotta) was found, she said.
"The 'V'-shaped water channel covering the habitation was restricted from four places which could be for movement of public. Habitation area of this period was divided into two parts- one inside and one outside the water channel," Misra said.
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