INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Q. In which of the following modern area “Amri Culture” developed? Notes: Amri culture refers to the Amri archaeological sites in Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. It flourished in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC.

Detailed explanation-2: -Amri is an ancient settlement in modern-day Sindh, Pakistan, that goes back to 3600 BCE. The site is located south of Mohenjo Daro on Hyderabad-Dadu Road more than 100 kilometres north of Hyderabad, Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-3: -Indus civilization …the Early Harappan Period was Amri in 1929. In 1948 the British archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler discovered a small deposit of pottery stratified below the remains of the mature Indus city at Harappa. The next site to be excavated with a view to uncovering the Early Harappan Period was Kot…

Detailed explanation-4: -The Amri culture is a characteristic Chalcolithic cultural aspect of Lower Sindh. It does not exist in Balochistan and also in the Las Bela province where, in contrast, are known many sites of the Nal culture.

Detailed explanation-5: -The archaeological importance of Amri was demonstrated in 1929 by the excavations of N.G. Majumdar, who discovered there, for the first time, a settlement of pre-Harappan date and culture that was underlying a Harappan one.