An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.678

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**Prakash** (21°30′; 74°21′), Dt Dhule, on the confluence of the rivers Tapti and Gomai in Shahada Taluka, the site located to the s.-e. of the present village, with its longer axis running along the Gomai. Explorations in the TAPTI VALLEY had indicated the potentialities of the site. With a view to ascertaining the succession of cultures at the site and to providing a relative time-scale for the region, an excavation was undertaken at this site by the writer on behalf of the ASI in 1955. (*AI*, 20 and 21, 1964 and 1965, pp. 5-167). The excavation exposed an over 17 m deep occupational deposit, belonging to four Pds with a break between the earlier two and a continuous sequence thereafter.