Altered cropping pattern and cultural continuation with declined prosperity following abrupt and extreme arid event at ~4,200 yrs BP: Evidence from an Indus archaeological site Khirsara, Gujarat, western India

• Anil K. Pokharia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Rajesh Agnihotri ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rajesh.agnihotri@bsip.res.in, rajagni9@gmail.com

  Affiliation Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2069-0734

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• Shalini Sharma,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Sunil Bajpai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Jitendra Nath,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Archaeological Survey of India, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

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• R. N. Kumaran,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Archaeological Survey of India, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

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• Bipin Chandra Negi

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Archaeological Survey of India, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

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