Was Indus Valley civilization impacted by a meteorite?
KOCHI: It took them four years. But researchers from the geology department of Kerala University have hit paydirt - all, as science calls it, melt-rocks, which are parts of a meteorite. The site is the hamlet of Luna, in Kutch, Gujarat.Radiocarbon dating of these melt-rocks show the meteorite impact may have happened around 6,900 years ago, roughly the period the Indus Valley civilizationwas flourishing in this area.