Gilund

Gilund is a village and archaeological site in Rajsamand district, Rajasthan, about 1.2 km south of the Banas river on the Mewar Plain. Locally the site is called Modiya Magari, the bald habitation mound. It is the largest of the 111 recorded sites of the Ahar-Banas Complex and one of five excavated, with Ahar, Ojiyana, Marmi and Balathal.

Two mounds, eastern and western, rise 45 ft and 25 ft above the fields. B. B. Lal dug here in 1959–60, and teams from the University of Pennsylvania and Deccan College returned from 1999 to 2005. People lived here from about 3000 to 1700 BCE, building houses, long-walled halls, workshops and an outer wall in mud and burnt brick; they farmed and kept sheep, goats and cattle. Finds include painted black-and-red ware, terracotta bulls and bead-making tools. In 2003 a bin holding more than 100 seal impressions came to light, with designs paralleled at Indus sites and in the Bactria-Margiana complex of Central Asia.