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Origin and Development of the Indus Script: Insights from Harappa and other sites

This comprehensive look at the development of the Indus script makes a clear and cogent case that its origins likely can be traced to the pre and post-firing graffiti marks found on pottery throughout the region.

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Integrating Lipid and Starch Grain Analyses From Pottery Vessels to Explore Prehistoric Foodways in Northern Gujarat, India

Juan José García-Granero

A solid foray into the question of what the ancient Indus people, at least in Gujarat, cooked and ate, and how that might have changed after the civilization seems to have declined.

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Indus Valley: Early Commercial Connections with Central and Western Asia

Dennys Frenez

A must-read paper for those fascinated by the extensive trade networks that the ancient Indus civilization was integrated with. Infused with the latest research from the many regions in question, it summarizes and delves into the evidence of people, texts, animals, minerals and plants to seals and weights, pottery, stone, metal and ivory objects, statues, games and toys and more.

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Invisible Value or Tactile Value? Steatite in the Faience Complexes of the Indus Valley Tradition

Heather M.L. Miller

It is really nice when an author posits a hypothesis, discusses why or why it may not be true, introduces another and then weighs them without necessarily strongly committing to either. In this case, Dr. Heather M. L.

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Inscribed Objects from Harappa Excavations 1987-2007

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Two leading ancient Indus archaeologists on the inscribed objects discovered over the past 20 years at the ancient site of Harappa in Punjab, Pakistan.

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The Bronze Age Indus Quarries of the Rohri Hills and Ongar

Paolo Biagi

A report on the largest archaeological site in South Asia, an industrial-scale enterprise that goes back hundreds of thousands of years: flint mining.

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Moving Mountains: The Trade and Transport of Rocks and Minerals with the Greater Indus Valley Region

Randall Law

Harappa’s rock and mineral assemblage from the perspective of the greater Indus Valley’s complex geology, the distance one would have to travel to acquire certain materials and a discussion of the differing motivations behind the acquisition and transport of rock and minerals in the greater Indus Valley region.

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An Acheulian Workshop at Ziarat Pir Shaban on the Rohri Hills, Sindh, Pakistan

Paolo Biagi

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.

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Nageswara: a Mature Harappan Shell Working Site on the Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat

Kuldeep Bhan

Recent explorations in the peripheral regions east of the Indus valley have established the spread of Harappan culture to settlements in Kutch, Saurashtra, Rajasthan and Harayana, but there has been much speculation on the reasons behind this cultural expansion.

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Interaction Systems, Specialized Crafts and Culture Change: The Indus Valley Tradition and the Indo-Gangetic Tradition in South Asia

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

The author focuses primarily on economic interaction networks and specialised crafts to show how they can provide a window on the other changes that may have been occurring.

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