An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c29.59

v2.c29.59

**Bagor** (25°21′; 74°23′), Dt Bhilwara, on the left bank of the Kothari river, a tributary of the Banas, 25 km w. of the Dt headquarters, lying in the centre of the undulating rocky plain of Mewar, about 500 m above sea level. Much of the plain is covered by an open woodland of *khejri* (*Prosopis spicigera*), *babul* (*Acacia arabica*), *dhak* (*Butea frondosa*) and *khajur* (*Phoenix sylvestris*). The rainfall of the region varies from 60 to 70 cm. Extensive tracts of rocky ground provide adequate pasture for sheep, cattle and camels, and pastoralism is an important segment of the rural economy. Wildlife is now sparse in the region but is known to have been plentiful till recently. The Kothari is not a perennial river but a depression on the n.-w. edge of the village, probably a remnant of a former course of the river, retains water all the year and must have been a major source of water for prehistoric human and animal populations. The dune is composed of wind-blown sand and the habitation materials occur throughout the sandy deposit, thus attesting that the dune was under active formation when the prehistoric man inhabited it.