Remains of human settlement dating back to 800 BCE have been found in Vadnagar, Gujarat.
Around 2,800 years old human settlement remains have been found in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s village in Vadnagar, Gujarat.
The study was conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and Deccan College.
The evidence shows that human settlement was contemporary to late-Vedic/pre-Buddhist Mahajanapadas or oligarchic republics.
The research shows that severe climatic changes, such as droughts, were a major factor in the rise and fall of various kingdoms.
The repeated invasions from Central Asia were also one of the factors in the decline of various kingdoms.
Vadnagar was a multicultural and multireligious settlement. Excavation shows the presence of seven cultural stages.
The period between the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation and the emergence of the Iron Age is considered a Dark Age by archaeologists.
The findings were published in the prestigious Elsevier journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
