Lahuradewa (Lat. 26°46'12" N; Long. 82°56'59" E) is located in Sant Kabir Nagar District, in Sarayupar (Trans-Sarayu) region of the Upper Gangetic Plain in

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state of

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. The Sarayupar Plain is bounded by the Sarayu River in the west and south, Nepalese

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in the north, and the

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River in the east. The site is noted to have been occupied as early as 9,000 BCE, and by 7,000 BCE it provides the oldest evidence of ceramics in

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. Excavations reported earliest archaeological sites in the world for cultivation of

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, with Lahuradewa Period IA giving samples that were dated by AMS

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to the 7th millennium BCE.Early Farming at Lahuradewa;

Rakesh Tewari Rakesh Tewari (born 2 October 1953) now retired, served as the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (2014 - 2017), and was formerly Director, State Department of Archaeology, Uttar Pradesh from 1988 to 2013. He is an Indian citi ...

, R.K. Srivastava, K.S. Saraswat, I.B. Singh, K.K. Sing

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Archaeology of India Archaeological sites in Uttar Pradesh Sant Kabir Nagar district {{SantKabirNagar-geo-stub

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