ChaHoon Jo Daro Nazar [Visit] Group
A brief but revealing visit to the site in real time. It's size is so small, but the possibilities beneath, as excavations in 1935-36 showed, so large.
A brief but revealing visit to the site in real time. It's size is so small, but the possibilities beneath, as excavations in 1935-36 showed, so large.
Geo News reports on the new French excavations at the site in Nawabshah district (Urdu), with the lead French archaeologist Dr. Aurore Didier interviewed in English. Nice shots of the mound, the many people working from various Pakistani universities.
The distinguished Indian archaeologist Shereen Ratnagar talks about the preconceptions and limitations of Indian archaeology, reflecting on "the kind of subtle points that don't always get taught in archaeology departments."
A wide-ranging, illustrated talk on bioarchaeology and climate change, and the many misconceptions people have about the latter. In the case of the ancient Indus Valley civilization for example, the inhabitants demonstrated many strategies for dealing with varying environmental conditions, so that attributing the decline of the civilization to climate change is likely incomplete.