Punjab

Counter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements

This is a really important article in that it shows how modern scientific tools and techniques can be used to cast surprising light on the assumptions and conclusions [myths?] that are often drawn from the limited set of evidence archaeologists have to work with.

Beas Landscape and Settlement Survey: Harappan Sites at Dunyapur/Lodhran – Punjab, Pakistan

Rita P. Wright

Often archaeology is all about digging deep, trying to get to the bottom layers on a site, intensively recording depths and detail. Sometimes it is about casting a wider net, in this case a larger area near an old bed of the Beas River in Punjab.

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The Origins of the Indus Civilization

M. Rafique Mughal

As Dr. Rafique Mughal leads the first major excavation at the site of Ganweriwala in the Cholistan desert – an exceptionally exciting development in ancient Indus archaeology – it is well worth reviewing his earlier papers, many of which were published in Pakistani archaeological journals forty or more years ago.

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Large-Scale, Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing of Palaeo-River Networks: A Case Study from Northwest India and its Implications for the Indus Civilisation

Hector A. Orengo

Wikipedia defines a paleo-channel as "a remnant of an inactive river or stream channel that has been filled or buried by younger sediment.

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Multiple Approaches towards Reconstruction of Fishing Technology: Net Making and the Indus Valley Tradition

William R. Belcher

This article undertakes to identify methods of fishing in the the Harappan Phase of the Indus Civilization. Given the perishable nature of fishing nets in the archaeological record, the author uses four sets of data to infer the presence of netting as a fishing technology.

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Report on the Excavation and Analysis of an Upper Acheulean Assemblage from Sihawal II

Report on the Excavation and Analysis of an Upper Acheaulean Assemblage

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

The objectives of this excavation were to expose an horizontal area of the coarse Lower Member of the Sihawal Formation and to try to determine the context of Lower Palaeolithic artifacts which were eroding out from this formation.

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Black Chert Source Identified at Nammal Gorge, Salt Range

Randall Law

In November 2000 the authors conducted collaborative fieldwork to identify salt and mineral resources from the Salt Range in the Punjab, Pakistan used by the prehistoric site of Harappa over 200 kilometers away.

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