Lahuradewa

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Lahuradewa (Lat. 26°46' N; Long. 82°57' E) is located in Sant Kabir Nagar District, in Sarayupar (Trans-Sarayu) region of the Upper Gangetic Plain in Uttar Pradesh state of India. The Sarayupar Plain is bounded by the Sarayu River in the west and south, Nepalese Terai in the north and the Gandak River in the east. excavations by Rakesh Tewari and others earliest reported archaeological sites in the Indian subcontinent for cultivation of rice, with Lahuradewa Period IA giving samples that were dated by AMS radiocarbon to the 9th millennium BP (7th millennium BCE).[1]

References

  1. Early Farming at Lahuradewa; Rakesh Tewari, R.K. Srivastava, K.S. Saraswat, I.B. Singh, K.K. Singh [1]