Deoria Tal’s Ancient Pollen: How a Quiet Lake in Uttarakhand Helps Explain Why the Harappan Civilisation Shrank

Deoria Tal’s Ancient Pollen: How a Quiet Lake in Uttarakhand Helps Explain Why the Harappan Civilisation Shrank: Understanding the vegetation dynamics and corresponding hydro-climate variability from the Garhwal Himalaya, India, could be crucial in understanding the monsoonal variability during the Late Holocene (Meghalayan Age; 4.2 ka to the present). The Holocene Lake records (Nachiketa Tal, Chharaka Tal, Dewar, Tal, Deoria Tal) from the Himalaya are limited by poorly constrained radiocarbon chronologies characterized