Bhirrana
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Bhirrana, also Bhirdana and Birhana, is an archaeological site, located in a small village in the Fatehabad district of the north Indian state of Haryana. Bhirrana's earliest archaeological layers con
Remains of the site in 2020
Dancing Girl engraving on a piece of red potsherd, discovered at Bhirrana
Chalcolithic
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The Chalcolithic was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic and preceded the Bronze Age. It occurred at different periods in differen
Bhirrana
…well as "about half a dozen" other charcoal samples from the early levels of Bhirrana dated 3200-2600 BCE, and smelted copper artefacts indicating a Chalcolithic rather than Neolithic stage of development. The site is one of the many sites seen along the channels of the seasonal Ghaggar river, identified by ASI…
Levant Chalcolithic male figurine, 4500–3500 BC
A painting of a Copper Age walled settlement, Los Millares, Spain