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Raising a Harappan skeleton from grave without losing history. A UP man on ASI speed dial https://theprint.in/ground-reports/raising-a-harappan-skeleton-from-grave-without-losing-history-a-up-man-on-asi-speed-dial/2966799/?amp

🔆 Rakhigarhi Human Skeletal Remains Handed Over for Advanced Scientific Research 📍 Why in News? ✅ Human skeletal remains excavated from Rakhigarhi (Haryana) have been transferred by ASI to the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) for advanced multidisciplinary research.  📍 About Rakhigarhi ✅ Located in Haryana ✅ Largest known settlement of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization ✅ Spread over ~550 hectares ✅ Evidence of Early Harappan to Mature Harappan habitation ✅ Features planned settlements, drainage systems, craft centres, trade networks and burial grounds.  📍 Recent Discovery ✅ Eight burials unearthed at Mound No. 7 during 2025–26 excavations ✅ Three complete human skeletons recovered ✅ Remains shifted to AnSI’s skeletal repository and laboratory in Kolkata.  📍 Scientific Techniques to be Used ✅ Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis ✅ Stable isotope studies ✅ Osteological assessments ✅ Palaeopathological investigations ✅ Environmental reconstruction.  📍 Expected Findings ✅ Ancestry and genetic history ✅ Migration patterns ✅ Diet and nutrition ✅ Disease prevalence ✅ Human-environment interactions ✅ Health and lifestyle of Harappan populations.  📍 Institutions Involved ✅ Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) ✅ Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) ✅ Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) ✅ Banaras Hindu University (BHU) ✅ University College London (UCL).  📍 Significance ✅ Strengthens India’s palaeoanthropological research ✅ Helps reconstruct Harappan population history ✅ Integrates archaeology, genetics, anthropology and environmental sciences ✅ Enhances understanding of one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations.  📍 Prelims Pointers ✅ Rakhigarhi — Haryana ✅ Largest known Indus-Saraswati Civilization site ✅ Excavated by ASI ✅ Human remains to undergo ancient DNA analysis.  Question Elaborate how can advances in archaeogenetics and palaeoanthropology contribute to understanding the origins, migration patterns and socio-cultural evolution of the Harappan Civilization?

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Central-Eastern Europe's oldest Neanderthal group identified by DNA taken from teeth - study https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-895960

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