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Ancient Indus questions answered by Paolo Biagi, Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy. He has numerous articles on this website, and the essay The Rohri Flint Quarries.

83. What do we know about the ecology of the Indus Valley (and the adjacent areas) during the period in which this civilization prospered?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Paolo Biagi
Shereen Ratnagar
Rita P. Wright

How much of the area that we now see as desert was actually forested in those times?

86. If you were a child in the ancient Indus valley, what would an average day be like for you?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Nisha Yadav
Paolo Biagi
Rita P. Wright

Gwen Robbins Schug, Paolo Biagi, Rita P. Wright and Nisha Yadav answer.

88. What role do you think the Rohri flint mines played in the Indus civilization?

Massimo Vidale
Paolo Biagi
Randall Law
Rita P. Wright

Randall Law

89. What is the relevance of Harappan civilization in today's world?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia
Nisha Yadav
Paolo Biagi
Rita P. Wright

Answered by Massimo Vidale, Mayank Vahia, Gwen Robbins Schug, Nisha Yadav, Paolo Biagi and Rita P. Wright

52. When did the Indus Valley Civilization start?

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Mayank Vahia
Nisha Yadav
Paolo Biagi

Answer to question 52. from our panel of leading ancient Indus archaeologists.

57. Have any ship wrecked Indus ships been discovered? There should have been many due to the extensive trade with Sumeria over many centuries.

Dennys Frenez
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Paolo Biagi
Randall Law

Dennys Frenez

61. Is there any research going on in analysing DNA of human remains to identify their origins? If not why not?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia
Paolo Biagi

Another answer to a question from you by our panel of leading ancient Indus archaeologists.

64. Why are flint and fire so important to ancient societies?

Dennys Frenez
Paolo Biagi

Another question from site visitors answered by leading archaeologists.

66. What were houses like in ancient Indus times?

Paolo Biagi
Shereen Ratnagar

"In a city like Mohenjo-daro, the excavators have said that the thick-walled houses could have taken an upper storey; there were several rooms and courtyards to a house, but whether each of these was the space for specific activities, we don’t know."

67. Is flint knapping around the Indus period similar or different to flint knapping in other Bronze age societies?

Massimo Vidale
Paolo Biagi

Another question from our site visitors answered by Indus scholars.

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