Archaeology & Prehistory
Surkotada: the contested horse bones
c. 2100 BCEIndus Valley CivilisationSurkotada (Gujarat)Gujarat
2,100 BCE
Animal bones some researchers identify as domesticated horse.
- Dated
- 2,100 BCE
- As scholars put it
- c. 2100 BCE
- Originator
- Indus Valley Civilisation
- Source text
- Surkotada (Gujarat)
- Region
- Gujarat
- Discipline
- Archaeology & Prehistory
- Evidence
- Plausible precursor
- Confidence
- Low
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Bears on debates about horses in Bronze-Age India.
Fair to say
The identification as a true domesticated horse (vs. wild ass/onager) is strongly disputed.
Path to modern innovation
Central to arguments about Indus-era fauna.
Transmission
A focus of the horse-in-the-Indus debate.
References
- 1Bokonyi vs. Meadow & Patel debate
Further reading
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