This article explores life in Mehrgarh and its importance as one of the major cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Mehrgarh represents a long chronological sequence from the 7th millennium to the 3rd millennium BC, divided into seven main periods from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The third period belongs to the agricultural society (agriculture and animal husbandry). For decades archaeologists have believed that plants and animals were first domesticated in the Near East (Israel, Lebanon, Syria, southwestern Turkey, Iraq, western Iran) at the beginning of the Holocene (8,000-10,000 years). ago). It is now possible to pose a challenge to this archaeological dogma on plant and animal domestication as evidence has been found in Afghanistan and at Mehrgarh in the Kachi plains of Pakistan. The roots of sedentism and village farming communities have been documented in the 7th millennium BC, at the site of Mehrgarh, in the Kachi plains, in the central Indus Valley. Agriculture here has been successful because the Pleistocene Indus River is thought to have flowed through this area...