The Harappan ‘Veneer’ and the Forging of Urban Identity
This thought-provoking paper explores the widespread similarity and standardization in material culture across the Indus Valley Civilization, termed by others as the ‘Harappan Veneer’.
Who Were the ‘Massacre Victims’ at Mohenjo-daro? A Craniometric Investigation
This 40 page paper presents an in-depth analysis aiming to elucidate the biological affiliations of individuals found in atypical burial contexts at Mohenjo-daro through craniometric studies.
Archaeological Field Research in Pakistan since Independence: An overview
This 1990 article from the Deccan College Bulletin's Memorial volume for H.D. Sankalia, an eminent Indian archaeologist, is a summary in one place of the archaeological work done in Pakistan after 1947. Much of this is relevant to wider than national boundaries.
How do you map the archaeological heritage of South Asia?
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An important video that describes how surveying archaeological sites at scale in India and Pakistan can be undertaken, using survey of India maps from the colonial period to help locate potential locations of interest.
Holocene people and sea-level changes along the northern coast of the Arabian Sea (Pakistan)
This paper develops a key theme relating to the origins of the ancient Indus civilization – the very different geographical reality in the Indus delta and the Arabian coast in the millennia preceding its rise.
Indus Objects at the National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi
A new 37 (to start) slide section takes the viewer through the ancient Indus pieces at the National Museum of Pakistan in Karachi. Pakistan's ancient Indus holdings are actually scattered across provincial, national and site museum collections.
