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Stone Beads in Oman during the 3rd to 2nd Millennia BCE. New Approaches to the Study of Trade and Technology

"In this paper," write the authors, "we present the preliminary results of a long-term and multifaceted study of the role of craft specialists and traders who were present in ancient Magan during the 5th-1st millennia BCE (Table 1), with a specific focus on beads found at sites in modern Oman, and

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Who Were the ‘Massacre Victims’ at Mohenjo-daro? A Craniometric Investigation

Brian E. Hemphill

This 40 page paper presents an in-depth analysis aiming to elucidate the biological affiliations of individuals found in atypical burial contexts at Mohenjo-daro through craniometric studies.

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A Dravidian solution to the Indus script problem

Asko Parpola

A Dravidian solution to the Indus script problem was presented as the Katalgnar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Research Endowment Lecture on June 25, 2010 in Coimbatore.

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The Archaeological Sites of the Rohri Hills (Sindh, Pakistan): the Way they are Being Destroyed

Paolo Biagi

Some 90 miles from Mohenjo-daro, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world is being destroyed after surviving for hundreds of thousands of years.

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The Indus Fish Swam in the Great Bath

Iravatham Mahadevan

Iravatham Mahadevan considers this late 2011 paper to be "one of the most important papers I have written."

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Steatite and Faience Manufacturing at Harappa: New Evidence from Mound E Excavations 2000-2001

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

The various types of materials present at this site reveal a complex network of trade and exchange that spread throughout the Indus Valley.

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The Indus Bead Industry: Contributions to Bead Technology

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Recent studies of the Indus Civilization and the developments that preceded it during the Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic in the Indus Valley and Baluchistan are revealing many new aspects of human culture in South Asia.

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Excavations at Harappa 1994-1995: New Perspectives on Indus Scripts, Craft Activities, and City Organization

Excavations at Harappa 1944-1955: New Perspectives on Indus Scripts, Craft Activities, and City Organization

Richard H. Meadow

Harappa Site Plan Until quite recently, the common view of the Indus Civilization has been as a phenomenon largely undifferentiated in space and time over more than 500,000 sq km and the 500 to 700 years of its existence (2600/2500-2000/1900 B.C.). With continuing archaeological work throughout

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New Perspectives on the Mauryan and Kushana Periods

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

The author writes: "As an archaeologist who has focused primarily on the first urbanism of the Indus valley, my interest in the Mauryan and Kushana periods arises from a need to understand what happened in the greater Indus valley after the decline and transformation of the Indus cities."

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The ‘High-West: Low-East’ Dichotomy of Indus Cities: A Dravidian Paradigm

R. Balakrishnan

A fascinating, well-documented article on Indus city layouts and linguistic paradigms.

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