Marked Mehrgarh, Balochistan

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Mehrgarh

At the foot of the Bolan Pass in Pakistan, one of the earliest farming villages in South Asia grew barley and wheat and kept cattle. Its people also drilled teeth, about 9,000 years ago.

Place
Mehrgarh, BalochistanAsia
Laid out as
A siteOne place known mainly from digging, read layer by layer from the top down.
Lessons
4 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IBarley and cattle
  2. IIThe first dentists?
  3. IIIBeads and trade
  4. IVThe road to the Indus cities

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Jean-François Jarrige
  • Catherine Jarrige

Objects

  • Drilled molars
  • Female figurines

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

7000 BC to 2600 BC. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?