Harappa

This paper will summarize the available literature and recent discoveries on the production and use of metals by peoples ofthe Indus Valley,Tradition of Pakistan and Western India. The primary focus is on the Harappan Phase (2600-1900 B.C.), and includes a review of collections and technical arialyses of metal artifacts, along with tables of the published analyses from the sites of Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Lothal, and Rangpur.

The vast mounded remains of the ancient city of Harappa, one of the largest sites of the Indus Valley civilization, have been known by scholars for more than one hundred years. Occupied almost continuously for more than five thousand years, Harappa's ancient ruins represent the traces of one of the earliest cities of the world, and even today one-third of the area is still occupied by the modern and thriving city of Harappa.

A closer look at the tablets discovered at Harappa during HARPS excavations and the locations where they were discovered at the site.

This paper presents a brief introduction to the Indus Tradition and then focuses on the range of images relating to human and animal interactions that were used in the greater Indus region.

The assemblage of inscribed and incised objects discovered at the site of Harappa during excavations conducted between 1986–2007 by the Harappa Archaeological Research Project (HARP).