Ongar Revisited
The flint (chert) sites in Ongar, SIndh go back to the Paleolithic period, up to 2 million years ago.
The Middle Holocene mangrove shellfish gatherers of Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan)
Results from a 2011 survey of Lake Siranda in Balochistan to locate prehistoric shell middens and study the Neolithic people who lived there in greater detail between the 8th and 6th milleniums BCE.
The Shell Middens of the Bay of Daun
Environmental Changes and Human Impact Along the Cost of Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan) Between the 8th and 5th Millenium BP
The stone and shell beads of the shell-midden settlement of RH-5 (Muscat, Sultanate of Oman)
A look at shell-midden and cemetery sites discovered in Oman that date back to the fifth millenium BCE, testifying to the levels of development in areas around the Indus Valley civilization thousands of years before it reached its peak.
The early Paleolithic sites of the Rohri Hills (Sind, Pakistan) and their environmental significance
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.
Technological choices and lithic production in the Indus period: Case studies from Sindh (Pakistan)
This complexity and variety of lithic (stone) production during the Indus Civilisation.
An Acheulian Workshop at Ziarat Pir Shaban on the Rohri Hills, Sindh, Pakistan
The assemblage recovered during excavation of the Acheulian Ziarat Pir Shaban site comprises 29,047 artifacts, instruments, cores and hammerstones included. These data confirm the presence of a Late Palaeolithic workshop on site.
The Archaeological Sites of Gadani and Phuari Headlands (Las Bela, Balochistan, Pakistan)
Ras Gadani and Phuari were surveyed in the 2000s by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Las Bela and Lower Sindh. The discovery of a few sites on the two headlands has shown the importance of the Las Bela coast for the archaeology of the northern Arabian Sea.
Changing the Prehistory of Sindh and Las Bela Coast: Twenty-five Years of Italian Contribution
The prehistory of Sindh and Las Bela coast (Balochistan) before and after partition, and the role played by Italian archaeologists since the 1980s.
Shell Middens of the Coast of Balochistan
Surveys conducted along the southeastern coast of Las Bela in the following years have shown that shell middens with different characteristics and variable chronology exist in many places among which are Gadani and Phuari Headlands and the shores of Lake Siranda. Shell middens are places where the debris from eating shellfish and other food has accumulated over time.