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Essays on the ancient Indus Valley civilization and culture by Paolo Biagi, University of Venice, Italy

The Rohri Flint Quarries

Paolo Biagi

The largest archaeological site in the subcontinent goes back hundreds of thousands of years to some of the earliest uses of fire. William Blandford reported the presence of flint cores and flakes in the hills near Sukkur and Rohri on the Indus River in 1880. In 1939, the geologists De Terra and Paterson suggested that some of the flint tools resembled those found in Mohenj… >

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