ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the ethnobotanical aspects of Indus Valley Civilization, which is one of the oldest civilization of the world. The chapter 60introduces the basic features of this civilization and goes on to explain the involvement of Indus valley ethnic people in agriculture, domestication, crop plants cultivation, involvement of plants in medicinal and religious activities and trade. This chapter stresses that Indus Valley people were the first in Indian sub-continent to have introduced and perfected agriculture and technology. This civilization was also the one that helped in domestication and diversification of some crop species and acted as centers of these two phenomena.
