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Carnelian Bead Production in Khambat, India: An Ethnoarchaeological Study

An overview of the important technological and organization aspects of the carnelian bead industry that will be useful in developing interpretive models regarding the role of agate bead production in early urban societies.

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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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A Peaceful Realm? Trauma and social differentiation at Harappa

Gwen Robbins Schug

An analysis of a skeletal collection from Harappa contradicts the dehumanizing, unrealistic myth of the Indus Civilization as an exceptionally peaceful prehistoric urban civilization.

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New Evidence for Jute (Corchorus capsularis L) in the Indus Civilization

Rita P. Wright

The study of archaeological textiles produced from plant crops in South Asia has advanced significantly in the past decade as a result of archaeo-botanical studies of seed remains and analyses of fibers.

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Gender in Southwest Asian Prehistory

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Diane Bolger

An article on the examination of gender (and gender theory) in Southwest Asian history.

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Shell Middens of the Coast of Balochistan

Paolo Biagi

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.

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Towards a Geo-Archaeology of Craft at Moenjo-daro

Massimo Vidale

This paper studies the formation of craft activity areas in Mohenjodaro. Since 1981, one of the key lines of research carried out by German and Italian archaeologists at Moenjodaro has been the surface evaluation of the craft activity areas of the archaeological complex.

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Symbols of Dilmun’s royal house – a primitive system of communication adopted from the late Indus world?

Steffen Terp Laursen

Perhaps some of the best clues to deciphering Indus seals may lie in the Arabian Gulf, where inscribed seals seem to have arrived and taken root just as they disappeared in Indus cities around 2000 BCE. "The Harappan sealing tradition, however, continued in Dilmun long after it had vanished from the Indian subcontinent and lived a vibrant life of its own," writes Steffen Laursen.

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Toponyms, Directions and Tribal Names in the Indus Script

Iravatham Mahadevan

A recent paper by the late Iravatham Mahadevan and his collaborator M.V. Bhaskar looks at signs in the Indus script that can be related to physical features in the landscape, and how this might play out in terms of interpreting them. A number of interpretations seem to fit together nicely.

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Control Mechanisms in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, the Aegean and Central Europe, c. 2600–2000 BC, and the Question of Social Power in Early Complex Societies

Lorenz Rahmstorf

"In the study of the archaeology of early complex societies in archaeology three questions concerning power are of interest: (1) Who had power? (2) Why did they have power? And (3) How was power exercised? "

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