Arabia

The Short-Horned Bull on the Indus Seals: a Symbol of the Families in the Western Trade?

A superb, thought-provoking paper by one of the most imaginative and interesting of ancient Indus archaeologists, able to reconcile the bigger picture with data and suppositions that often fit together very nicely. They certainly do in this paper.

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A Note on the Interregional Interactions between the Indus Civilization and the Arabian Peninsula during the Third Millennium BCE

Akinori Uesugi

"This article examines the diachronic developments of the interregional relationship between the two regions based on the ceramic evidence both from the Greater Indus Valley and the Arabian peninsula.

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Carnelian and Agate Beads in the Oman Peninsula during the Third to Second millennia BC

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

A detailed look at carnelian and agate sources and manufacture throughout the Gulf region, and how many of the beads found show clear evidence of ancient Indus manufacturing techniques.

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Perspectives from the Indus: Contexts of interaction in the Late Harappan/Post-Urban period

Rita P. Wright

Rita P. Wright, an archaeologist with long experience understanding the Indus areas around Harappa (see the Beas Settlement and Land Survey) looks at the complex evidence surrounding the decline of Indus civilization at the end of the third and beginning of the second millennium (around 2000 BCE and afterwards).

Etched (carnelian) beads from northeast and southeast Arabia

An De Waele

The authors look at the evidence of approximately 70 etched/bleached carnelian beads found from sites along the Arabian shores of the Persian Gulf (in Bahrain, Oman and the UAE) and hypothesize that these beads were imported from workshops on the Indian subcontinent, whether through direct or

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