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

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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Harappa: New Discoveries on its Origins and Growth

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Recently, a program of systematic surface surveys and small-scale excavations has been implemented at sites in the hinterland around Harappa. Initial results of these complementary research strategies are changing our understanding of the nature of Indus urbanism in the Punjab and have implications for the overall structure of the Indus Civilization.

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Preliminary Report on Excavations at the Late Palaeolithic Occupation Site at Baghor I Locality

Preliminary Report on Excavations at the Late Paleolithic Occupation Site at Baghor Locality

D. Mandal

A Preliminary Report on the site of Baghor I, located almost at the base of the Kaimur escarpment some 4km north-east of, Maraoli village, Sidhi District, India.

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Commodities and Things: The Kulli in Context

Rita P. Wright

A closer look at the mysterious Kulli culture of Balochistan that both pre-dated and was contemporaneous with ancient Indus culture, and apparently was part of an elaborate trading network that stretched west as far as the Jiroft culture in Iran.

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Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery: New Evidence for Site Distribution and Ecologies in the Upper Indus

Rita P. Wright

The landscape and mapping project around the now dry riverbed of the Beas river has cast important light on how ancient riverine settlements and environments interacted with an urban center like Harappa.

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The Archaeological Sites of Gadani and Phuari Headlands (Las Bela, Balochistan, Pakistan)

Paolo Biagi

Ras Gadani and Phuari were surveyed in the 2000s by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Las Bela and Lower Sindh. The discovery of a few sites on the two headlands has shown the importance of the Las Bela coast for the archaeology of the northern Arabian Sea.

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The Decline of the Harappans

George F. Dales

The archaeologist George F. Dales, who excavated at Mohenjo-daro in 1964, and hydrologist Robert L. Raikes propose a theory around the decline of the Indus civilization which involves large flooding and a back-up of the Indus for perhaps a century in ancient times.

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The paste plaques and cylinders of Chanhudaro: A descriptive report

Massimo Vidale

As part of his 1935-36 excavation report on Chanhudaro, Ernest Mackay has a section on "Paste Plaques and Cylinders," two types of objects that were made of the same material, and were found in large quantities and occurring together across the excavated area of Mound II. The material was "...white, porous...with a texture like a fine pumice but sufficiently friable to be scraped away easily with the finger nail."

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