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. >