The paper reports for the first time from India the discovery of spikelets of Setaria spp. It appears that the carbonized grains are represented by Setaria italica, S. viridis and S. verticillata or by unknown species. The material comes from the Harappan site, Surkotada in district Kutch, Gujarat and is radiocarbon dated to 1600 B.C. The identification of these carbonized spikelets is based upon comparative morphological study of ten extant species of Setaria.