Credits
Photographs by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer and Richard H. Meadow, Co-Directors, Harappa Archaeological Research Project (HARP). Drs. Kenoyer and Meadow are shown here in front of Mound AB, Harappa, in 1996.
Introduction essay on the Ancient Indus Valley Civilization by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer. Explains the social, historical, and archaeological context
of the pictures or images of artifacts from Harappa (and other sites).
Introduction to Around the Indus in 90 Slides
The Indus Valley Civilization flourished in the vast river plains and adjacent regions in what are now Pakistan and western India. The earliest cities became integrated into an extensive urban culture around 4,600 years ago and continued to dominate the region for at least 700 years from 2600 to 1900 B.C. It was only in the 1920's that the buried cities and villages of the Indus valley were recognized by archaeologists as representing an undiscovered civilization.
Harappa Site Plan
Harappa Site Plan
Around the Indus in 90 Slides Essay 6
Environment and Subsistence
These settlements are spread out over a vast and diverse geographical area (4 Fields, 5 Himalayas), from the lapis mining region in mountainous northern Afghanistan (6
Around the Indus in 90 Slides Essay 8
Trade and Exchange
The Indus cities were connected with rural agricultural communities and distant resource and mining areas through strong trade systems. They used pack animals (54 Bull figurine, 56