Sindh

Lithic Production: The Excavation of RH962 Flint Mine and Flint Knapping Workshops on the Rohri Hills

This paper considers one aspect of the research conducted by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Sindh, more specifically the discovery of the Indus flint mines of the III millennium BC in the Rohri Hills, and the excavations carried out at flint mine RH962.

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Zahr-Muhra: Soapstone - Cutting in Contemporary Baluchistan and Sindh

Massimo Vidale

This paper represents as introduction to the work of a contemporary soapstone-cutter living and working between Baluchistan and Sindh.

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Lime Kilns Ethnobotany Lower Sindh

Renato Nisbet

During the 2010 Italian Archaeological Mission to the area, an evaluation of plants and man in past and present times by looking at the wood fueling of kilns.

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Ranikot Fort (Jamshoro, Sindh): An AMS Radiocarbon Date from Sann (Eastern) Gate

Paolo Biagi

"The first radiocarbon date from charcoal included in the mortar of a collapsed pillar lying overturned in the riverbed at Sann (Eastern) Gate, Ranikot, confirms that at least this sector of the fort was built, or repaired, between the beginning of the XVIII and the beginning of XIX century AD, that

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An Archaeological Survey in the Neighborhood of Thari in the Thar Desert (Sindh, Pakistan)

Paolo Biagi

The discovery of many Mesolithic (roughly 10,000 BCE and afterwards, many thousands of years before the height of the Indus Civilization) sites in the Thar Desert in the 1990s.

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Ongar Revisited

Paolo Biagi

The flint (chert) sites in Ongar, SIndh go back to the Paleolithic period, up to 2 million years ago.

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The Indus Seals: An Overview of Iconography and Style

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

This paper examines the nature of Indus seals and the different aspects of seal iconography and style in order to better understand their overall role in the Indus civilization.

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The early Paleolithic sites of the Rohri Hills (Sind, Pakistan) and their environmental significance

Paolo Biagi

One of the first articles to explore the significance of the Rohri flint mines near Mohenjo-daro, who use reaches back hundreds of thousands of years and which played an important role in the ancient Indus civilization as well.