J. P. Joshi

Jagat Pati Joshi (born 14 July 1932) is an Indian archaeologist who discovered the Indus Valley sites of Dholavira and Surkotada. Joshi served as the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1987 to 1990. Quotes At Surkotada from all the three periods quite a good number of bones of horse (Equus Caballus Linn) ... have been recovered. The parts recovered are very distinctive bones: first, second and third phalanges and few vertebrae fragments. Jagat Pati Joshi, Excavation at Surkotada and Exploration in Kutch (New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, Memoirs N°87, 1990), pp. 381-382.quoted in THE HORSE AND THE ARYAN DEBATE by Michel Danino* (Published in the Journal of Indian History and Culture of the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research, Chennai, September 2006, No.13, pp. 33-59.) External links Category:1932 births Category:Archaeologists from India Category:Living people