Gandhinagar, Aug. 5 -- Scientists from Gujarat have claimed that the archaeological findings from Gujarat's Kachchh reveal evidence of human presence dating back 9,000 to 9,500 years.

This is a collaborative finding by the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT-Gandhinagar, IIT-Kanpur, the Inter University Accelerator Centre (Delhi), and PRL-Ahmedabad.

Associate Professor VN Prabhakar of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Gandhinagar, stated that his colleagues discovered many broken shells in Bambhanka, located 10 kilometres from Dholavira.

"One of our colleagues found many broken shells in Bambhanka, 10 kilometres away from Dholavira. It was found to be about 6,000 years old. When I joined IIT he...