Editing Harappa (section)

==Dating==
[[File:Red pottery, IVC.jpg|thumb|Harappa. Fragment of Large Deep Vessel, circa 2500 B.C. Red pottery with red and black slip-painted decoration, 4 15/16 × 6 1/8 in. (12.5 × 15.5&nbsp;cm). [[Brooklyn Museum]].]]{{Unsourced|section|date=January 2025}}{{multiple image|perrow=2|total_width=230|caption_align=center
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| image2   = Harappa 13 grey stone male dancer statuette.jpg
| footer=The controversial Harappa male torso (left). The discoverer, [[Madho Sarup Vats]], claimed a Harappan date, but [[John Marshall (archaeologist)|Marshall]] dated the statuette to the [[Gupta Empire|Gupta]] period.<ref>The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective by Gregory L. Possehl [https://books.google.com/books?id=pmAuAsi4ePIC&pg=PA111 p.111]</ref> Another famous statuette from the site is the Harappa grey stone male dancer (right).
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*The earliest [[radiocarbon dating]] mentioned on the web is 2725±185&nbsp;BC (uncalibrated) or 3338, 3213, 3203&nbsp;BC calibrated, giving a midpoint of 3251&nbsp;BC. Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark (1991) Urban process in the Indus Tradition: A preliminary report. In Harappa Excavations, 1986–1990: A multidisciplinary approach to Second Millennium urbanism, edited by Richard H. Meadow: 29–59. Monographs in World Archaeology No.3. Prehistory Press, Madison Wisconsin.
*Periods 4 and 5 are not dated at Harappa. The termination of the Harappan tradition at Harappa falls between 1900 and 1500&nbsp;BC.
*[[Mohenjo-daro]] is another major city of the same period, located in [[Sindh]] province of [[Pakistan]]. One of its most well-known structures is the [[Great Bath, Mohenjo-daro|Great Bath]] of Mohenjo-Daro.