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India Archaeological Sites

Archaeological sites located within the borders of the modern-day country of India.

Arikamedu
Arikamedu was a Roman trade center on the southeast coast of India, near the modern town of Pondicherry.

Attirampakkam (Tamil Nadu)
This article abstract from <i>Antiquity</i> written by Shanti Pappu and colleagues discusses the archaeology of Attirampakkam, a paleolithic site in southern India.

Bagor
The archaeological site of Bagor is a Late Mesolithic (pre-Harappa) archaeological site in the Bhilwara District of the Rajasthan region of western India.

Burzahom
The site of Burzahom is a Neolithic settlement and cemetery in the Kashmir state of India, occupied between about 3000-1500 BC.

Chirand (India)
Chirand is a stratified Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Iron Age settlement in the eastern Ganges Valley of Bihar in northern India, between about 2500-AD 30.

Hampi (India)
What you need to know about Hampi, the ancient capital city of the kingdom of Vijaynagar.

Jwalapuram (India)
Jwalapuram is an open air site located in Andhra Pradesh of southern India, where 7.5 meters of river sediment includes artifacts before and after the Toba ashfall, dated at ~74,000 years ago.

Narmada Valley
The Narmada Valley site in India is known for both a Cretaceous period fossil prehistory, as well as the discovery of an isolated cranium of an archaic Homo Sapiens.

Piklihal
The archaeological site of Piklihal is a neolithic period site in Raichur District, India.

Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal, at Agra, India, must be the most famous grave monument in the world.

Tekkalakota
Tekkalakota is a Neolithic period site in Bellary district, India, where archaeologists found the foundations of circular huts and a small cemetery

Vijayanagara
Vijayanagara ("Victory City") was the capital city of the medieval Hindu empire of southern India of Vijayanagara.

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