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  Shown within Haryana  Bhirrana (India) | |
| Location | Haryana, India |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 29°33′15″N 75°32′55″E / 29.55417°N 75.54861°E |
| Length | 190 m (620 ft) |
| Width | 240 m (790 ft) |
| History | |
| Founded | Approximately 8th-7th m. BCE[1][2][3][4] |
| Abandoned | Approximately 2600 BCE[1][2][3][4] |
| Periods | Hakra Wares to Mature Harappan |
| Cultures | Hakra Ware culture, Indus Valley civilization |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 2003–2006 |
Bhirrana, also Bhirdana and Birhana, (IAST: Bhirḍāna) is an archaeological site, located in a small village in the Fatehabad district of the north Indian state of Haryana.[web 1][5][web 2] Bhirrana's earliest archaeological layers predates the Indus Valley civilisation times, dating to the 8th-7th millennium BCE. [2][1][6][3][4][web 2] The site is one of the many sites seen along the channels of the seasonal Ghaggar river,[7][4] identified by ASI archeologists to be the Rigvedic Saraswati river.[web 2][4]
- ^ a b c Law 2008, p. 83.
- ^ a b c Rao 2005.
- ^ a b c Dikshit 2013.
- ^ a b c d e Sarkar 2016.
- ^ Kunal, Bhirdana and Banawali in Fatehabad
- ^ Dikshit 2012.
- ^ Singh 2017.
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