Lahuradewa (Lat. 26°46'12" N; Long. 82°56'59" E) is located in

Sant Kabir Nagar District Sant Kabir Nagar district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Khalilabad is the district headquarters. Sant Kabir Nagar district is a part of Basti division. The total area of Sant Kabir Nagar district is . Eco ...

, 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 The Sarayu is a river that originates at a ridge south of Nanda Kot mountain in Bageshwar district in Uttarakhand, India. It flows through Kapkot, Bageshwar, and Seraghat towns before discharging into the Sharda River at Pancheshwar at the I ...

River in the west and south, Nepalese

Terai The Terai or Tarai is a lowland region in northern India and southern Nepal that lies south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Sivalik Hills, and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. This lowland belt is characterised by tall grasslands, scr ...

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

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

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...

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

radiocarbon Carbon-14, C-14, or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and coll ...

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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