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New Discoveries

Articles about new opinions and changing perspectives of contemporary trends in modern academic studies on the ancient Indus Valley Civilization (this includes new discoveries and an in-depth analysis of them).

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. >

Urban Process in the Indus Tradition: A Preliminary Model from Harappa

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Excavations on two of the major mounds at Harappa have revealed traces of an early settlement, a transitional phase of development, and several phases of full urban and post-urban occupation. >

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

  • Topographic map showing northwestern India and Pakistan
Ajit Singh

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. >

New Radiocarbon Dates for the Prehistory of the Arabian Sea Coasts of Lower Sindh and Las Bela in Balochistan (Pakistan)

  • New Radiocarbon Dates for the Prehistory of the Arabian Sea Coasts of Lower Sindh
Paolo Biagi

New radiocarbon dates from coastal sites in Lower Sindh and the adjoining Las Bela area in Balochistan from marine and mangrove shells and shell-middens at 11 sites. >

A Peaceful Realm? Trauma and social differentiation at Harappa

  • Trauma and Social Differentiation at Harappa
Gwen Robbins Schug

An analysis of a skeletal collection from Harappa contradicts the dehumanizing, unrealistic myth of the Indus Civilization as an exceptionally peaceful prehistoric urban civilization. >

Neanderthals at the South-easternmost Edge

  • flakes and blades
Paolo Biagi

The Spread of Levalliosian Mousterian (600,000 BP and 40,000 BP) in the Indian Subcontinent. >

Changing Perspectives of the Indus Civilization: New Discoveries and Challenges

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Some of the major new perspectives on the Indus Civilization that are the result of new discoveries at sites in the core regions of the Indus Civilization found in both Pakistan and India. >

Excavations at Shikarpur, Gujarat 2008-2009

Kuldeep Bhan

Continuing work by the archaeologists at MSU University in Baroda including new seals and classical Harappan pottery finds. >

Harappan Chimaeras as ‘Symbolic Hypertexts’. Some Thoughts on Plato, Chimaera and the Indus Civilization

Dennys Frenez

An analysis and interpretation of the so-called Harappan chimaera, one of the most peculiar and elaborate iconographies of Indus Civilization. >

Inscribed Objects from Harappa Excavations 1987-2007

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Two leading ancient Indus archaeologists on the inscribed objects discovered over the past 20 years at the ancient site of Harappa in Punjab, Pakistan. >

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