The cities of a civilisation whose most distinctive artefact is a ste…

NCERT (2026-27): “10. Discovering the Harappan Civilisation …
When Harappan cities fell into ruin, people gradually forgot all about them. When men and women began living in the area millennia later, they did not know what to make of the strange artefacts that occasionally surfaced, washed by floods or exposed by soil erosion, or turned up while ploughing a field, or digging for treasure.”