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Dates have been cultivated in the Middle East and the Indus Valley for thousands of years, and there is archaeological evidence of date cultivation in Mehrgarh, a Neolithic civilisation in western Pakistan, around 7000 BCE[1] and in eastern Arabia between 5530 and 5320 calBC.[2] Dates have been cultivated since ancient times from Mesopotamia to prehistoric Egypt. The ancient Egyptians used the fruit to make date wine and ate dates at harvest.[citation needed] In the Levant, the earliest traces of dates appear during the Chalcolithic period, at sites such as Nahal Mishmar (Israel) and Teleilat el-Ghassul (Jordan).[3] Evidence of cultivation is continually found throughout later civilisations in the Indus Valley, including the Harappan period from 2600 to 1900 BCE.[1]