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Lohari Ragho

Indus Valley village-site near Rakhigarhi, Haryana

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Lohari Ragho is a village and Indus Valley civilization archaeological site, located in Hisar district of the Haryana state in India. It has 3 separate mounds, each 1 to 1.5 km apart within the peripheral suburban zone of Rakhigarhi city cite, where artifacts belonging to Mature Harappan and Sothi-Siswal cultural period (sub-culture of Late Harappan phase) have been confirmed based on filed visits. These mounds, unprotected and under risk of encroachment and threat of obliteration, are yet to be excavated, fenced, protected or conserved. It is 8 km southwest of its erstwhile urban center of Rakhigarhi, 60 km from its IVC cultural ancestor Siswal, 55 km northeast of district headquarter Hisar, 133 km northwest of national capital New Delhi, and 175 km southwest of state capital Chandigarh.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Classical Period
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Early Modern Period
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Mature Harappan phase (date range)

2600 BCE - 1400 BCE

Sothi-Siswal (Late Harappan) period

after 1400 BCE

Site reported to Haryana Department of Archaeology

1980

Scholarly article attributing Sothi-Siswal

1984

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Storage Structures

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VillagesTowns
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Artificial Mounds
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India

Coordinates

29.27° N, 76.07° E