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Ancient Indus civilization articles which can be downloaded and read as PDF files from this site.

Indus Valley: Early Commercial Connections with Central and Western Asia

A must-read paper for those fascinated by the extensive trade networks that the ancient Indus civilization was integrated with. Infused with the latest research from the many regions in question, it summarizes and delves into the evidence of people, texts, animals, minerals and plants to seals and weights, pottery, stone, metal and ivory objects, statues, games and toys and more. >

On the Development of Indus Technical Virtuosity and Its Relation to Social Structure

Massimo Vidale

This paper focusses on "the distinctive Indus characteristic of inventing and diffusing elaborated techniques for the production of small, valuable objects, especially ornaments." >

Deep Learning in Archiving Indus Script and Motif Information

Vaishnavi Dixit

One day Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be of great help in reading ancient Indus inscriptions. There are likely to be many steps before we get there however. >

The Levalloisian Assemblages of Sindh

Paolo Biagi

and their importance in the Middle Paleolithic of the Indian subcontinent >

The Bronze Age Indus Quarries of the Rohri Hills and Ongar

Paolo Biagi

A report on the largest archaeological site in South Asia, an industrial-scale enterprise that goes back hundreds of thousands of years: flint mining. >

Indus Script: A Study of its Sign Design

Nisha Yadav

A recent essay on the structural design of signs in the Indus script by experts at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. >

Excavation at Harappa: 1988

George F. Dales

Findings from the third season of research by the University of California, Berkeley, project at Harappa, conducted from January 1 to mid-April 1988. >

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. >

Measuring the Harappan World: Insights into the Indus Order and Cosmology

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

An overview of the types of artifacts that inform us about ancient Harappan measurement systems in order to gain insight into their concepts of order and cosmology. >

Traditional Potters of India

Marilyn P. Beaudry

An examination of traditional pottery methods and practices in light of an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. in 1987. >