Consider the following statements regarding early agricultural centers in the subcontinent:
1. Mehrgarh in Balochistan remains the oldest documented Neolithic site demonstrating the systematic cultivation of wheat and barley around 7000 BCE.
2. Lahuradewa in the Middle Ganga Plain has challenged earlier models by providing absolute carbon-dated evidence of cultivated rice going back to c. 6000 BCE.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Both statements are correct and represent current consensus in Indian history. While Mehrgarh establishes the baseline for wheat domestication in the northwest, Lahuradewa establishes an early, independent loop of rice farming in the fertile alluvial belt of Uttar Pradesh, making India's agricultural origins multi-centric.

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