The Rohri Hills as they appear along the western fringe of the plateau, facing the fertile Indus Valley, where most of the Harappan flint quarries and workshops have been discovered (map). >
Some of the narrow bladelets discarded by Harappan flint-knappers are only 2-3 millimeters wide. Bladelets were later retouched into insturments in the Indus Valley cities. They were often shaped into microdrills for piercing stone and shell beads. >
The Rohri Hills as they appear along the western fringe of the plateau, facing the fertile Indus Valley, where most of the Harappan flint quarries and workshops have been discovered. >
The first Harappan flint quarries here were discovered during a preliminary survey carried out in January 1986 by the writer and Prof. M. Cremaschi of Milan University (standing close to one of the structures). They are in the central-western part o… >
Around the quarries, thousands of flint artefacts were found lying on the surface. This shows that peliminary chipping of the artefacts took place on top of the mesas, or flat limestone terraces. >
An almond shaped pre-core recovered from the bottom of quarry pit 862. A pre-core is the working stage preceding the manufacturing core. Any nodule from which a few flakes have been removed in order to obtain a flat surface from which to start the m… >
The presence of Harappan flint workshops in the hills close to Rohri had been discovered by Bridget Allchin in 1975. The impressive mining activity in the hills is particularly well-represented near Shadee Shaheed. The 1993-96 surveys discovered mor… >
Southwest of the hills lies the famous pre-Harappan and Harappan site of Kot Diji. From the surface of the site, it is very easy to collect flint artefacts obtained from Rohri Hills raw material. The quarry pits investigated so far belong to the … >
