The Shell Middens of the Bay of Daun
Environmental Changes and Human Impact Along the Cost of Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan) Between the 8th and 5th Millenium BP
Articles on natural resources and raw materials in the ancient Indus civilization
INAA of agate sources and artifacts from the Indus, Helmand, and Thailand Regions
"Geologically speaking," write the authors, "agate is not a particularly uncommon rock . . .. However, good agate – i.e, that which ancient lapidaries would have found suitable for beadmaking – is not widely available. Nodules of the size and quality required to make Harappan-style long-barrel carnelian beads are, in fact, extremely rare" (p. 177).
Late Upper Paleolithic Sites at Jhimpir in Lower Sindh (Thatta, Pakistan)
Results from the 2010 surveys of Paleolithic (before 10,000 BCE) assemblages among the limestone terraces of Jhimpir.
The Middle Holocene mangrove shellfish gatherers of Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan)
Results from a 2011 survey of Lake Siranda in Balochistan to locate prehistoric shell middens and study the Neolithic people who lived there in greater detail between the 8th and 6th milleniums BCE.
The Important Stone and Metal Resources of Gujarat during the Harappan Period
"In the year 2000," writes the author, "I initiated a large‐scale effort to identify the geologic sources from which peoples of the Indus Civilization (ca. 2600 to 1900 BC) acquired rock and mineral resources."
A Technique for Determing the Provenance of Harappan Banded Limestone "Ringstones" Using ICP-AES
The author's propose a method to analyze some of the largest artifacts recovered at Indus Civilization (ca. 2600 to 1700 BC) cities in Pakistan and northwestern India, the limestone “ringstones.” This later led to the determination that Harappa's ringstones came from near Dholavira.
Ongar Revisited
The flint (chert) sites in Ongar, SIndh go back to the Paleolithic period, up to 2 million years ago.
Carnelian and Agate Beads in the Oman Peninsula during the Third to Second millennia BC
A detailed look at carnelian and agate sources and manufacture throughout the Gulf region, and how many of the beads found show clear evidence of ancient Indus manufacturing techniques.
Moving Mountains: The Trade and Transport of Rocks and Minerals with the Greater Indus Valley Region
Harappa’s rock and mineral assemblage from the perspective of the greater Indus Valley’s complex geology, the distance one would have to travel to acquire certain materials and a discussion of the differing motivations behind the acquisition and transport of rock and minerals in the greater Indus Valley region.
An Archaeological Survey in the Neighborhood of Thari in the Thar Desert (Sindh, Pakistan)
The discovery of many Mesolithic (roughly 10,000 BCE and afterwards, many thousands of years before the height of the Indus Civilization) sites in the Thar Desert in the 1990s.