Balochistan

Evaluating Potential Lapis Lazuli Sources for Ancient South Asia Using Sulfur Isotope Analysis

"Lazurite - the constituent of lapis lazuli that gives the rock its blue color - is a rare mineral in nature," writes Randall Law, and there is likely to have been only one source in the region during ancient times, the Badakhshan mines in Afghanistan.

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Thirty Years of Archaeological Surveys and Excavations in Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan)

Paolo Biagi

Another important summary paper by Paolo Biagi reprises all the discoveries made by Italian teams in Sindh and Balochistan that have upended our understanding of pre and neighbouring areas to the Indus civilization.

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Cultural Relationships Beyond the Iranian Plateau: The Helmand Civilization, Baluchistan and the Indus Valley in the 3rd Millennium BCE

Massimo Vidale

An examination of a variety of discovered artifacts which suggest a trade system within the region. Trade trends are marked and explained as the excavated items reflect shifts in the market.

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Living Symbols

Massimo Vidale

A spectacular exhibition opened on June 24, 2014 at the National Museum of Oriental Art (MNAO) 'Giuseppe Tucci' in Rome, Italy.

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Commodities and Things: The Kulli in Context

Rita P. Wright

A closer look at the mysterious Kulli culture of Balochistan that both pre-dated and was contemporaneous with ancient Indus culture, and apparently was part of an elaborate trading network that stretched west as far as the Jiroft culture in Iran.

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The Middle Holocene mangrove shellfish gatherers of Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan)

Paolo Biagi

Results from a 2011 survey of Lake Siranda in Balochistan to locate prehistoric shell middens and study the Neolithic people who lived there in greater detail between the 8th and 6th milleniums BCE.

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The Shell Middens of the Bay of Daun

Paolo Biagi

Environmental Changes and Human Impact Along the Cost of Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan) Between the 8th and 5th Millenium BP

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The Archaeological Sites of Gadani and Phuari Headlands (Las Bela, Balochistan, Pakistan)

Paolo Biagi

Ras Gadani and Phuari were surveyed in the 2000s by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Las Bela and Lower Sindh. The discovery of a few sites on the two headlands has shown the importance of the Las Bela coast for the archaeology of the northern Arabian Sea.

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Shell Middens of the Coast of Balochistan

Paolo Biagi

Surveys conducted along the southeastern coast of Las Bela in the following years have shown that shell middens with different characteristics and variable chronology exist in many places among which are Gadani and Phuari Headlands and the shores of Lake Siranda. Shell middens are places where the debris from eating shellfish and other food has accumulated over time.

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The shell-middens of the Arabian Sea and Gulf: maritime connections in the seventh millenium BP?

Paolo Biagi

The discovery of shell-middens (mounds) in Las Bela, Balochistan, from roughly 8000 BCE raises the possibility of trade across the Arabian Sea during Neolithic times.

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Balochistan

Evaluating Potential Lapis Lazuli Sources for Ancient South Asia Using Sulfur Isotope Analysis

Thirty Years of Archaeological Surveys and Excavations in Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan)

Cultural Relationships Beyond the Iranian Plateau: The Helmand Civilization, Baluchistan and the Indus Valley in the 3rd Millennium BCE

Living Symbols

Commodities and Things: The Kulli in Context

The Middle Holocene mangrove shellfish gatherers of Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan)

The Shell Middens of the Bay of Daun

The Archaeological Sites of Gadani and Phuari Headlands (Las Bela, Balochistan, Pakistan)

Shell Middens of the Coast of Balochistan

The shell-middens of the Arabian Sea and Gulf: maritime connections in the seventh millenium BP?

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