MoU for new insight in early Harappan culture soon

The Haryana Department of Archaeology and Museums and the Indian Archaeological Society will sign an Memorandum of Understanding to explore early Harappan culture at Kunal in the state's Fatehabad district.
To have a new insight in early Harappan culture, the MoU will be signed on February 28, Haryana Archaeology and Museums Minister Ram Bilas Sharma said here today.
The excavation at this site, one of the earliest Harappan sites in Haryana, was first conducted by late J S Khatri and M Acharya under Haryana Archaeology Department during 1985-86, he said.
The previous excavations have provided significant traits of early Harappan culture in the sub-continent for the very first time in the history of Harappan studies, Sharma said.

The new project has been initiated to bring out the earliest material culture of the site, where the core area of the settlement is three-four acre but the site expands to nine acre, he said.
Kunal has a great contribution in the early Harappan studies in the Indian sub-continent and will definitely open new prospects in future researches on formation and antecedent stages of classical Harappans, the Minister said.
"The developed drainage system characterises this site. This excavation is aimed at bringing out the earliest material culture of the site and may push the history of the civilisation back by over 1,000 years," he said.

Kunal is located on the bank of now dried up river course of mythical Saraswati river.