Neolithic-through-Chalcolithic farming settlement on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan, among the earliest evidence of farming and herding in South Asia.
Continuously occupied into the Chalcolithic; its population and traditions are widely seen as an antecedent to the rise of the Indus Valley Civilisation (already in dataset), with occupation ending as regional centers like Nausharo took over around 2600 BC.
Standard synthesis covering Mehrgarh as antecedent to the Indus Valley Civilization.