Trade

Measuring the Harappan World: Insights into the Indus order and cosmology

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

This article presents an overview of the types of artifacts that inform us about ancient Harappan measurement systems.

Moving Mountains: The Trade and Transport of Rocks and Minerals with the Greater Indus Valley Region

Randall Law

This paper first examines 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.

A Diachronic Examination of Lithic Exchange Networks During the Urban Transformation of Harappa

Randall Law

The origins of manufacturing debris recovered from different periods of occupation between 3300 BCE and 1700 BCE at Harappa can now be identified with a high degree of certainty thanks to geologic source provenance studies.

Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Indus Valley

Randall Law

The exchange and communication systems that connected distant parts of the Indus Civilization (c. 2600 to 1900 BC) and beyond had roots beginning in the early Neolithic period.

The Paleolithic settlement of Sindh (Pakistan): A review

Paolo Biagi

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 shell-middens of the Arabian Sea and Gulf: maritime connections in the seventh millenium BP?

Paolo Biagi

The discovery of shell-middens (mounds) in Las Bela, Balochistan, from roughly 8000 BCE raises the possibility of trade across the Arabian Sea during Neolithic times.