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13Researchers from IIT-Kharagpur to study climate change during Indus Valley Civilization

Hindustan Times (September 16, 2021)

Researchers from Deccan College, IIT Kharagpur to study climate change during Indus Valley Civilisation

The researchers aim to establish biological relations, if any, to climate change that is believed to have contributed to the downfall of Indus Valley Civilisation starting approximately 2,000 BCE

Researchers from Pune-based Deccan College and IIT-Kharagpur have undertaken a study to understand the human response to a similar climate change that could have affected the Indus Valley Civilisation. The project aims to establish biological relations, if any, to climate change that is believed to have contributed to the downfall of the civilisation starting approximately 2,000 BCE.
According to researchers, the project will study isotopes in land shells from archaeological sites to retrieve data on past changes in seasonality over century-level timescales.

Aarti Deshpande-Mukherjee, archaeologist, Deccan College, is the principal investigator of the project along with professor Anindya Sarkar from the geology department of IIT-Kharagpur, co-investigator in the project. Sushama Deo, a retired professor at Deccan College is also one of the investigators in the project. (Read More)