To the south of the "granary" or "great hall" at Harappa is an area with numerous circular working platforms that were built inside small rooms or courtyards. These circular working platforms may have been used for husking grain. One of these circul… >

Greenish clay layers were found in a deep depression in the center of the HARP-excavated platform. One theory that is being investigated is that the platform and the central pit were used for production of indigo dye (Trench 43). >

Mitthi Dhora, Kanrach Valley: surface of boulder platform, with bone splinters. >

An overview of the area on Mound F as seen from the city wall on Mound AB. The circular working platforms are in the background and a row of identical houses that were clearly made all at one time, possibly a housing project of some wealthy merchant… >

The foundations of many houses were constructed on top of massive mud brick platforms such as this one eroding from the edge of the mound along the major east-west street dividing HR and VS areas. The size of large mud bricks used for the constructi… >

Between Mound AB and Mound F are a number of mysterious circular platforms, originally inside houses and small courtyards. >

The so-called circular working platform area and workmen's quarters are seen in the mid-ground. New excavations of a circular working platform was begun in 1998 and continues in 1999. Initial results suggest that the platforms were not used for proc… >

Some buildings in L area are constructed on top of a massive mud brick platform that can be seen here as grey-olive mud brick below the eroding red fired bricks. >

These platforms are often called workmen's platforms, and were first thought to have been used to thresh grain for what was also thought to have been the nearby "Great Granary." >