Indus Civilization: India Discovery Center
When:
Saturday, Jul 23, 2016 10:00a -
4:00p
Saturday, Jul 23, 2016 10:00a -
4:00p
Where:
Lexington Community Center
39 Marrett Road
Lexington, MA 02420
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art, Food, Innovation, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good, University
Event website:
http://www.indiadiscoverycenter.org
India Discovery Center presents a Full-Day Seminar on the Indus Civilization
The mission of the India Discovery Center is to map the chronology of India’s cultural history in order to understand and appreciate the development of the current Indian society and the evolution of Indian traditions in practice.
On Saturday July 23, 2016, Swati Dave, Srabonti Bandyopadhyay, Jaspal Singh, Chandrika Govardhan, Krishna Gazula and Sanjeev Tripathi will each share their research findings on the pre-historic and Indus Period. This meeting will also feature Dr. Richard Meadow, Senior archaeologist from Harvard University, who has been involved in Indus excavation work for more than four decades. It will be presided over by Professor R. Balachandra of Northeastern University, who is Compiler and Editor of notes created by the participants in the India Discovery Center.
Artifacts excavated thus far suggest that the Indus Civilization spread over a wide area covering a million square miles of northwestern South Asia and beyond. While the date of the “Mature” period can be estimated to be 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE, the inception of settlements were several millennia earlier. In addition to Indus valley, hundreds of new sites have been identified and several dozen have been excavated, which can be used to reconstruct the history and development of the civilization. Often known as Harappan objects because of early findings at Harappa, these artifacts are found in sites as far as away as Mesopotamia and in Arabia. The population of the Indus Civilization developed a highly urban culture with town planning, underground sewer systems, water supplies, agricultural products and industrial goods. Various writings appear as graphical representations, but to date, attempts to decipher images have not been successful.
We invite you to join the day-long event at the Lexington Community Center, 39 Marrett Road, Lexington http://www.lexingtonma.gov/community-center. The program will begin at 10 AM, with a lunch break at 12:30 PM, and will end at 4 PM.
The event will be of interest to students, researchers and the public at large who wish to know about India and her history. Each presentation will be thirty minutes followed by a ten minute Question and Answer session.
Please register for the event at http://www.indiadiscoverycenter.org. We request a $10 optional donation to defray lunch expenses at the site. Feel free to contact Dr. Bijoy Misra at [email protected] with questions or comments, or if you wish to volunteer to support IDC’s efforts.
