All the books many detailed Appendices and definitions, including a discussion of "Provenance," by the author: "I have always understood the former term to mean a thing’s place of origin or source and the latter term to mean a thing’s history going back to and including it’s origin or source." >

Objectives The Rohri Hills Project is jointly run by the Department of Archaeology, The Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan and the Department of Historical, Archaeological and Oriental Sciences at the University of Venice in Italy. Project Directors are Prof. M. Mukhtiar Kazi (Director-Archaeologist) and the author, Dr. Paolo Biagi (Co-Director-Archaeologi… >

The rock and mineral artifact assemblage at Harappa is large. More than 56,000 individual items made of stone or metal have been tabulated since excavations by the HARP began in 1986. >

Groundstone implements are, in terms of total weight, by far the most abundant kind of stone artifact found at Harappa. Included in this category are querns, mortars, mullers, pestles, whetstones, burnishers and adzes. >

Indus Civilization peoples, although heavy consumers of copper and skilled producers of copper-alloy implements, still chose to utilize chert to manufacture many of the tools (blades, drills, scrapers, awls, etc.) that they used in their daily lives. >

Steatite – a rock composed primarily of the mineral talc ( hydrous magnesium silicate) in its massive form, was undoubtedly a material of tremendous importance at Harappa. Artifacts made from it comprise nearly 40% of the site’s rock and mineral assemblage. >

The roughly 4700 finished objects (mostly ornaments but also the occasional stone weight) and pieces of raw material or manufacturing debris from Harappa that have been designated agate or jasper exhibit a bewildering range of macroscopic variability. >

In this chapter, I examine a distinctive translucent g reen to yellowish-g reen rock that has been recovered at Harappa in the form of beads, amulets and manufacturing debris. >

The mineral gypsum – hydrated calcium sulfate (CaSO4•2H2O), is found in many forms at Indus Civilization sites. Transparent tabular crystals known as selenite have been recovered at Harappa. >