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Rohri Mines

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.

The prehistoric flint mines at Jhimpir in Lower Sindh

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

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.

The Paleolithic settlement of Sindh (Pakistan): A review

A review of recent research and findings in Sindh, and a review of a book on the larger Paleolithic Settlement of Asia over the past 100,000 years.

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

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.

The chipped stone assemblage of the Tharro Hills

A Preliminary Typological Analysis (Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan)

The Levalloisian assemblages of Sindh

and their importance in the Middle Paleolithic of the Indian subcontinent

The Mesolithic Settlement of Sindh

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