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Mehrgarh (7000 BC - 2500 BC)

One of the most important   Neolithic   (7000 BCE to c. 2500 BCE) sites in   archaeology , lies on the "Kachi plain" of now Balochistan ,   Pakistan . It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming (wheat and barley) and herding (cattle, sheep and goats) in South Asia." Mehrgarh is located near the   Bolan Pass , to the west of the   Indus River   valley and between the now Pakistani cities of   Quetta ,   Kalat   and   Sibi . The site was discovered in 1974 by an archaeological team directed by French archaeologist   Jean-François Jarrige , and was excavated continuously between 1974 and 1986, and again from 1997 to 2000. The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh—in the northeast corner of the 495-acre (2.00 km 2 ) site—was a small farming village dated between 7000   BCE   to 5500   BCE  and the whole area covers a number of successive settlements. Archaeological material has been found i...