-1 101 Z Inamgaon, the best known Western Indian farming settlement, occupied from around 1600 to 700 BC, contained more than seventy densely packed houses and courtyards, arranged along lanes. Many features of the settlement are mirrored in modern villages in the area.
#Inamgaon settlement, plan of settlement
1 101 X Inamgaon was situated among very fertile fields where its inhabitants grew wheat, barley, rice and many pulses. Cattle were their main domestic animals, but they also kept sheep, goats and pigs and hunted antelope, wild fowl and other game.
#Surroundings
4 101 X Typical houses in the period 1600-1000 BC were rectangular, with lime plaster floors, and often divided into kitchen and living room. Houses also had one or two courtyards.
#House
2 101 X The adjacent river provided water and transport - a jetty was built to moor river craft. A massive embankment of rubble and mud mortar dammed part of the river, filling a storage tank for irrigation water.
