Ancient Cholistan Art and Architecture
Pakistan's leading Indus scholar reports on his ground-breaking research in ancient Cholistan, along the dry Hakra or Sarasvati river. Full of splendid photographs.
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Frontiers of the Indus Civilization: Sir Mortimer Wheeler Commemoration Volume
An important collection of over 50 (!) essays on all aspects of the Indus civilization, by numerous luminaries in the field, covering everything from terminology to materials, class structure, script and art.
The External Trade of the Indus Civilization
A detailed examination of Indus artifacts, real or not, found outside the subcontinent, including in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, the Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and Crete.
Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
The ancient world of Mesopotamia (from Sumer to the subsequent division into Babylonia and Assyria) vividly comes alive in this portrayal of the time period from 3100 BCE to the fall of Assyria (612 BCE) and Babylon (539 BCE).
Daimabad 1976-79
Discovered in 1958, the excavations between 1976-79 by the Archaeological Survey of India shed much light on this late and post-Harappan site in Maharashtra, then the southern-most known Indus site.
Rediscovering Harappa | Through the Five Elements
This superb catalogue is available below as a free PDF (6.6 MB), and is described in greater detail in this blog post An Awesome Indus Exhibition Catalogue.
Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
"The indigenous seems to reside and grow deep within the colonial," writes the author (p. 86) of this book.
The Ancient South Asian World
An exceptional introduction to South Asian archaeology written at the middle school level and part of the popular The World in Ancient Times series.
The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization
Essays by leading specialists that outline the issues, hypotheses, and questions raised over the last decades. The editor presents a lengthy introduction that outlines the history, developments and complexities of the Indus Civilization.
The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity
A number of essays collected by a prominent theoretician of language and culture and a Sanskritologist, with contributions by Madhav Deshpande, Arvind Sharma, Mark Kenoyer, Asko Parpola and others.