Turkeys: Slaughtered at 5 to 6 months young; Natural life span: 2 to 6 years. Ducks/Geese: Slaughtered at 7 to 8 weeks young; Natural life span: domestic ducks: 6 to 8 years; geese from 8 to 15 years.
Since there are virtually no written accounts of this civilization, nearly everything we know about it is from archaeology. The Emergence of Indus Valley Civilization. Early civilization spread around the Indus River, which like the Nile River in. Egypt, would flood and bring water and rich soil. From 3500 to 2600 BC, the Early. Indus (o r Early Harappan) period began in this region.
There is evidence of some level of contact between the Indus Valley Civilization and the Near East. Commercial, religious, and artistic connections have been recorded in Sumerian documents, where the Indus valley people are referred to as Meluhhaites and the Indus valley is called Meluhha.