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Paolo Biagi

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

The stone and shell beads of the shell-midden settlement of RH-5 (Muscat, Sultanate of Oman)

A look at shell-midden and cemetery sites discovered in Oman that date back to the fifth millenium BCE, testifying to the levels of development in areas around the Indus Valley civilization thousands of years before it reached its peak.

The early Paleolithic sites of the Rohri Hills (Sind, Pakistan) and their environmental significance

One of the first articles to explore the significance of the Rohri flint mines near Mohenjo-daro, who use reaches back hundreds of thousands of years and which played an important role in the ancient Indus civilization as well.

Technological choices and lithic production in the Indus period: Case studies from Sindh (Pakistan)

This paper analyses the complexity of the lithic (stone) production of the Indus Civilisation.

An Acheulian Workshop at Ziarat Pir Shaban on the Rohri Hills, Sindh, Pakistan

The assemblage recovered during excavation of the ZPS1 site comprises 29,047 artifacts, instruments, cores and hammerstones included. These data confirm the presence of a Late Palaeolithic workshop on site.

Changing the prehistory of Sindh and Las Bela coast: twenty-five years of Italian contribution

This paper discusses the prehistory of Sindh and Las Bela coast (Balochistan) before and after partition, and the role played by the Italian archaeologists since the 1980s.

The prehistoric flint mines at Jhimpir in Lower Sindh

New finds from 2010 at one of the earliest flint mines in South Asia.

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 Bronze Age Indus Quarries of the Rohri Hills and Ongar

A report on the largest archaeological site in South Asia, an industrial-scale enterprise that goes back hundreds of thousands of years: flint mining.

Neanderthals at the South-easternmost Edge

The Spread of Levalliosian Mousterian in the Indian Subcontinent

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