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Prehistoric Balochistan: Cultural Developments in an Arid Region

"It has become clear that Balochistan can neither be perceived as a border nor as a frontier; but rather as a core area with its own dynamics and characterised by regionally distinctive styles."

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The Indus Talc-Faience Complex: Types of Materials, Clues to Production

Heather M.L. Miller

"Talcose stone was used primarily to make beads, seals and tokens, but also for inlay pieces, small figurines and sculptures. In contrast to faience, massive talc was not commonly used to produce either small vessels or bangles.

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Heterarchic Powers in the Ancient Indus Cities

Massimo Vidale

This thoughtful and enlightening paper starts with a clear statement of the writer's point-of-view: "On the other hand, to keep writing that Indus society in the 3rd millennium BC was uniform, acephalous, egalitarian and classless, that it was not a state, that its people rejected violence, elites

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Holocene people and sea-level changes along the northern coast of the Arabian Sea (Pakistan)

Paolo Biagi

This paper develops a key theme relating to the origins of the ancient Indus civilization – the very different geographical reality in the Indus delta and the Arabian coast in the millennia preceding its rise.

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Debt and inequality: Comparing the “means of specification” in the early cities of Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization

Adam S. Green

"Debt lurks in the shadow of reciprocity," is the wonderful starting sentence of this paper. Highly theoretical, it opens up important questions about seals in the ancient Indus and Mesopotamian civilizations and their role in the system of administrative control which helped integrate society at the dawn of urban civilization.

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Excavations at Shikarpur 2007-2008: A Costal Port and Craft Production Center of the Indus Civilization in Kutch, India

Kuldeep Bhan

Results from the exciting and continuing excavations on the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat.

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Archaeological Surveys in Lower Sindh: Preliminary Results of the 2009 Season

Paolo Biagi

Results from new discoveries of flint sites dating back to the 7th millennium (7000-6000 BCE) suggestive of sea-faring in the Arabian Sea thousands of years before the Indus Civilization.

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Reconstructing the History of Harappan Civilization

Mayank Vahia

A detailed analysis of the evolution of Indus Civilization based on a compilation of the latest scientific data by experts.

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Early Developments of Art, Symbol and Technology in the Indus Valley Tradition

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Archaeologists studying the emergence of early civilizations often focus on finely crafted art objects in order to understand the aspects of economic, socio-political and religious organization. The importance of such objects is increased when studying early societies for which there are no written records, such as the Indus Valley civilization.

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The Indus Civilization: Unfathomed Depths of South Asian Culture

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

New studies are revealing the complexity and unique character of this protohistoric urban society that were not appreciated by earlier scholars.

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