. . . More recently, Jane McIntosh, www.harappa.com/category/expert/jane-mcintosh whom we met earlier in connection with the peaceful character of the Harappan society, commented on the discoveries of Mughal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafique_Mughal and others in these words

This work revealed an incredibly dense concentration of sites, along the dried up course of the river that could be identified as the “Saraswati” . . . Suddenly it became apparent that the ‘Indus” Civilization was a misnomer -- although the Indus had played a major role in the rise of development of the civilization, the ‘lost Saraswati’ River, judging by the density of settlement along its banks, had contributed an equal or greater part of its prosperity.

This led McIntosh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McIntosh to the following conclusion on the issue of terminology:

Many people today refer to this Early state as the ‘Indus-Saraswati Civilization’ and continuing references [in her book] to the ‘Indus Civilization’ should be seen as an abbreviation in which the ‘Saraswati’ is implied.

Despite such plain assessments of the share of the Sarasvati region in the Harappan world, the designation ‘Indus-Sarasvati civilization’ has not caught on. There are several reasons for this, apart from a predictable reluctance to alert a time honoured terminology ~ Page 143

. . . The Indian Archaeologist Vasant Shinde and his Indian and Japanese colleagues, revisiting a number of sites of the region, first remind their readers that ‘the Ghaggar-Harka River has been identified as the ancient Saraswati and Chautang as Drishadvati very often referred to in the Rg Vedic period’. They sum up their findings in these terms:

The archaeological survey carried out by the present authors in 2007 in parts of Hanumangarh and Ganganagar Districts of Rajasthan and Bhivani and Rothak Districts of Harayana have recorded some of the sites with the help of the GPS. Surprisingly all the sites near Anupgarh are actually6 located in the Gaggar River courses. This is very interesting and suggests that the Gaggar (Saraswati) River had dried much before the emergence of the pre-Harappan culture in this area. ` Page 149