Agriculture, Botany & Everyday Tech
Indus multi-cropping (summer and winter crops)
c. 2600-1900 BCEIndus farmersArchaeobotany from Indus sitesIndus region (India/Pakistan)
2,600 BCE
Evidence of both winter crops (wheat, barley) and summer crops (millets, rice): a flexible two-season system.
- Dated
- 2,600–1,900 BCE
- As scholars put it
- c. 2600-1900 BCE
- Originator
- Indus farmers
- Source text
- Archaeobotany from Indus sites
- Region
- Indus region (India/Pakistan)
- Discipline
- Agriculture, Botany & Everyday Tech
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- Medium
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
Practices varied by region; not uniform across the civilisation.
Path to modern innovation
Prefigures South Asia's rabi-kharif cropping calendar.
2,600 BCEIndus multi-cropping (summer and winter crops)
1960Builds on
7,000 BCEReferences
- 1C. Petrie & J. Bates, Journal of World Prehistory (2017)
Further reading
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