IJA Indian Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 6, No 2, (2021), 495-522 495 ISSN 2455-2798 www.ijarch.org Cereal Grains and Grain Pulses: Reassessing the archaeo- botany of the Indus Civilisation and Painted Grey Ware period occupation at Alamgirpur district Meerut U.P. J. Bates 1 , C. A. Petrie 2 , R. Ballantyne 2 , C. Lancelotti 3 , K. S. Saraswat 4 , A. Pathak 5 & R. N. Singh 5 1 Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, USA Email: jenbates@sas.upenn.edu; ORCID: 0000-0002-7100-4741 2 Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK 3 CaSEs Research Group, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 4 Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany 5 Corresponding Author: Department of AIHC and Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, Email:drravindransingh@gmail.com; ORCID 0000-0002-1102-4839 1. Introduction: This paper reviews the archaeo-botanical remains from the 2008 excavations at Alamgirpur (29 o 00.206’N; 77 o 29.057’E), which were carried out by Banaras Hindu University. Alamgirpur is the eastern most settlement of the Indus Civilisation thus far excavated, and represents an important site in relation to understanding how the Indus interacted with populations in the Yamuna- Ganges doab, and as a site that has later period occupation, how the transition between the Indus period and Painted Grey Ware (PGW) period occurred in this region. A preliminary report on the archaeobotanical remains have been published previously 1 , and there has been detailed analysis of charcoal and phytolith remains explored in relation to fuel resources 2 . The macrobotanical remains