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Articles focused on the availability, and use of Natural Resources such as shells, water, wood, stones, and rocks, by the Indus Valley Civilization. This is closely related to the use of raw materials.

The Mesolithic Settlement of Sindh

  • Khat sim lake
Paolo Biagi

Some 7,000 years before the Indus civilization, there were flourishing communities in the area explains Dr. Biagi of Foscari Univerisity in Venice, Italy. >

The Chipped Stone Assemblage of the Tharro Hills

  • Tharro hills
Paolo Biagi

A first description of the chipped stone assemblage collected by A.R. Khan at the fortified Amri settlement of the Tharro Hills in Sindh. >

The Archaeological Sites of the Rohri Hills (Sindh, Pakistan): the Way they are Being Destroyed

  • Rohri Hills
Paolo Biagi

Some 90 miles from Mohenjo-daro, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world is being destroyed after surviving for hundreds of thousands of years. >

Shell Middens of the Coast of Balochistan

  • Shell Middens of the Coast of Balochistan - Paolo Biagi
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. >

Zahr-Muhra: Soapstone - Cutting in Contemporary Baluchistan and Sindh

  • Zahr-Muhra: Soapstone-Cutting in Contemporary Baluchistan and Sindh
Massimo Vidale

This paper represents as introduction to the work of a contemporary soapstone-cutter living and working between Baluchistan and Sindh. Our interest in his person and profession ultimately resulted from the involvement of both the authors since 1982 in the Surface Evaluation Program carries out at M… >

Mining Bronze Age Stone Resources: Some examples from the Caucasus (Georgia) and Sindh (Pakistan)

Paolo Biagi

Archaeologists often assume that metals like bronze replaced the need for stone tools, but is this really the case given the evidence in these two areas not to mention select Mediterranean regions? In the Indus region, what was the use of these tools given their limited presence in Mohenjo-daro and Harappa? >

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