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When we think of the Neolithic era, we usually picture a package deal: farming, permanent villages, and pottery all arriving together. But the ancient settlement of Mehrgarh, located on the Kachi Plain in what is now Pakistan, breaks that assumption entirely. Seven thousand years before the Common Era, people were farming wheat and barley, herding cattle, and building mudbrick homes without making a single ceramic vessel. For over four thousand years, this community thrived at the foot of…
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