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The Ravi Phase: A New Cultural Manifestation at Harappa

Study of the excavated material combined with radiocarbon dates has made it possible to present a detailed chronology for the Harappa site and a more precise breakdown of the types of artifacts and architectural traditions associated with each major occupational period.

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Harappa in 3D: A Powerful New Tool Rebuilds the Past in the Indus Valley

Wayne R. Belcher

The buried, ruined debris of a once-roud civilization rises for the first time in nearly four millennia -- this time on a computer screen.

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The Middle Holocene mangrove shellfish gatherers of Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan)

Paolo Biagi

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.

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Pedology and Late Quaternary Environments Surrounding Harappa: A Review and Synthesis

Ronald Amundson

A review and explanation of the regional climate, geology, and environment which historically influenced the life and culture of the Harappan peoples. "A review and synthesis of pertinent pedological, geological, and paleoenvironmental studies in the vicinity of Harappa (District Sahiwal, Punjab,

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Early Beadmakers of the Indus Tradition

Massimo Vidale

This paper examines a reconstruction of the techniques used by the ancient beadmakers for the production of 'steatite' beads in Mehrgarh (Pakistan) during the fifth century (BCE). Additionally, it includes an in-depth analysis of the methodologies and modern technologies employed in the comparative

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Novelizing the Ancient Indus Valley

Vasant Dave

An insightful survey of fiction about the ancient Indus civilization, a theme rather new to publishing but where we can expect more activity in the future if the recent past is a good indicator. The writer is himself an author of ancient Indus fiction based on research.

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Chariots in the Chalcolithic Rock Art of India

Erwin Neumayer

In this article Erwin Neumayer studies the rock paintings from sites in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan to investigate the role and types of the chariot.

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Exploiting Mangroves and Rushing Back Home

Paolo Biagi

Preliminary results from recent surveys along the little explored coast of Sindh and Balochistan, where the evidence of ancient human habitation along a one-time mangrove coast keeps growing.

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Exploiting mangroves: Environmental changes and human interference along the northern coast of the Arabian Sea (Pakistan) during the Holocene

Paolo Biagi

This paper reviews the work done since the early 1970s east of Karachi along the Makran coast, containing what were once extensive mangrove areas (where salt and fresh water meet to create unique habitats).

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Protohistory of the vara. Exploring the Proto-Indo-Iranian Background of an Early Mytheme of the Iranian Plateau

Massimo Vidale

"Correlating ancient textual sources with iconography and archaeological evidence in general is notoriously a controversial exercise, constantly carried out on endemically slippery grounds," writes the author at the very start.

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