Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Hundreds of sandstone shelters where people lived and painted for thousands of years, the oldest gallery of human art in Bharat.
The paintings, mostly in red and white, show hunters with bows, bison, deer and boar, people dancing in lines, honey-gathering, and in later layers riders on horses and elephants. Excavation in the shelters found Stone Age tools in deep layers. The name is local tradition: the shelter where Bhima, the Pandava, sat.
It shows people living and painting continuously in central India from the Stone Age into historic times.
ExcavationEleven molar crowns from nine adults with neat holes drilled into them, the earliest evidence of dentistry on living people anywhere.
ExcavationA Sarasvati-valley settlement whose levels run from Hakra ware pit-dwellings up to a mature Harappan town, and whose earliest dates are argued over.
ExcavationThe oldest ploughed field yet excavated anywhere, with its furrows still visible in a grid.
ExcavationA Harappan city in a dry land that lived by catching every drop: dams on two seasonal streams fed a chain of reservoirs cut into the rock around the town.
ExcavationThe first city of the civilisation to be dug, which gave its name to the whole culture.
ExcavationThe largest city of the Sindhu valley, laid out in a grid of baked-brick streets with covered drains and a great bath on its citadel.
ExcavationRows of small clay-lined fire pits on raised brick platforms, with a well and bathing floors beside them.
ExcavationA small steatite seal of a figure seated in a yogic posture, wearing a horned headdress and surrounded by animals, whom many see as Pashupati, Lord of creatures.
