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.
The Prehistoric Flint Mines at Jhimpir in Lower Sindh
New finds from 2010 at one of the earliest flint mines in South Asia.
Late Upper Paleolithic Sites at Jhimpir in Lower Sindh (Thatta, Pakistan)
Results from the 2010 surveys of Paleolithic (before 10,000 BCE) assemblages among the limestone terraces of Jhimpir.
The Bronze Age Indus Quarries of the Rohri Hills and Ongar
A report on the largest archaeological site in South Asia, an industrial-scale enterprise that goes back hundreds of thousands of years: flint mining.
Neanderthals at the South-easternmost Edge
The Spread of Levalliosian Mousterian (600,000 BP and 40,000 BP) in the Indian Subcontinent.
The Paleolithic settlement of Sindh (Pakistan): A review
A review of recent research and findings in Sindh, and a review of a book on the larger Paleolithic Settlement of Asia over the past 100,000 years.