page_title: Dholavira
section_title: Chronology of Dholavira
hierarchical_section_title: Dholavira / Chronology of Dholavira
caption_attribution_description: English: Layout Plan of Dholavira Archeological Site at Timba Kotda, Dholavira, Kutch, Gujarat. Other information There are some places marked in drawing with help of Archeological Survey of India Website.
context_page_description: Dholavira is an archaeological site at Khadirbet in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch District, in the state of Gujarat in western India, which has taken its name from a modern-day village 1 kilometre south of it. This village is 165 km from Radhanpur. Also known locally as Kotada timba, the site contains ruins of an ancient Indus Valley Civilization/Harappan city. Dholavira’s location is on the Tropic of Cancer. It is one of the five largest Harappan sites and most prominent archaeological sites in India belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization. It is also considered as having been the grandest of cities of its time. It is located on Khadir bet island in the Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary in the Great Rann of Kutch. The 47 ha quadrangular city lay between two seasonal streams, the Mansar in the north and Manhar in the south. The site was thought to be occupied from c.2650 BCE, declining slowly after about 2100 BCE, and that it was briefly abandoned then reoccupied until c.1450 BCE, however recent research suggests the beginning of occupation around 3500 BCE and continuity until around 1800 BCE.
  The site was discovered in 1967-68 by J. P.
context_section_description: Ravindra Singh Bisht, the director of the Dholavira excavations, has defined the following seven stages of occupation at the site:
  Recent C14 datings and stylistic comparisons with Amri II-B period pottery shows the first two phases should be termed Pre-Harappan Dholaviran Culture and re-dated as follows: Stage I (c. 3500-3200 BCE), and Stage II (c. 3200-2600 BCE).
caption: Layout of Dholavira
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