An overall summary of the Indus Valley Civilization and its development, culture, and decline.

This paper represents as introduction to the work of a contemporary soapstone-cutter living and working between Baluchistan and Sindh.

Mehrgarh is the gift that keeps on giving to archaeologists, this time as the location with the oldest known cotton in the Indian subcontinent. Pushing back the origin of major crops, like rice recently, or silk previously, suggests that while some agricultural practices may have spread east to the Indus valley, others, like rice and perhaps cotton and crops that could rotate with other crops may have spread westwards from the Indus region.