Photographs of Male Dancing Figure from Harappa by John Marshall with conjectural sketches by Mark Kenoyer. Dancing is something that the ancient Indus people took very seriously. There is the dancing girl, and there is this exquisite male that John Marshall introduces: "And now

This majestic seated male sculpture or "Priest King" from Mohenjo-daro sports a fillet or ribbon headband with circular inlay ornament on the forehead and similar but smaller ornament on the right upper arm: bit.ly/3LMaRLk #IndusCivilization

There are not many comprehensive summaries of the development of agriculture in the western subcontinent. Early Villages from Baluchistan to Western Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat by Dilip K. Chakrabarti is a 50 page piece from the book History of Ancient India II: Protohistoric

Indus Administrative Technology - New Insights on Harappan Stamp Seals and their Impressions on Clay Tags by Dennys Frenez is a richly illustrated slide journey through seals and sealings, how and why they were used in other ancient civilizations, and primarily what we might know

A wide variety of game pieces from Mohenjo-daro on a modern wooden board at the National Museum of Pakistan in Karachi. Sir John Marshall, one of the earliest excavators at Mohenjo-daro writes in the monumental work summarizing the first finds at the site (Mohenjo-daro and the

On the Development of Indus Technical Virtuosity and Its Relation to Social Structure by Drs. Massimo Vidale and Heather M.L. Miller focusses on "the distinctive Indus characteristic of inventing and diffusing elaborated techniques for the production of small, valuable objects,

So much attention has been focused on seals, that we sometimes forget that producing multiple sealings were their basic function: impressions on clay or other humble materials to perform some sort of basic administrative functions. Indeed, while it has often been assumed that

What kind of things did Indus people eat? Various scholars weigh in, including Jane McIntosh: "The Harappans grew lentils and other pulses (peas, chickpeas, green gram, black gram). Their main staples were wheat and barley, which were presumably made into bread and perhaps also

Counter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements by Ajit Singh and 11 other scholars is a really important article in that it shows how modern scientific tools and techniques can be used to cast surprising light on the

Ringstones are among the most fascinating of ancient Indus objects, particularly after recent research has shown some of those at Harappa to have originally been manufactured near Dholavira and then transported some 1,000 kilometers north. We think they might have been used to

Early writing or sign systems were fragile. They could disappear leaving seemingly little trace in the systems that followed. This is true of the ancient Indus sign system. It is also true of the proto-Elamite one, which seems to have preceded the ancient Indus Valley system in

Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus Valley by K.N. Dikshit is a little known but well-written and surprisingly relevant summary of what was known about the ancient Indus civilization after the first 14 years of excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro (1921-35). The

1924 News story pushed India's history back 2000 years. Short Video by Omar Khan, producer of Harappa.com -the discovery of the unknown Indus Civilisation, announced by Sir John Marshall, & the letter confirming it was far older than anyone thought youtube.com/watch?v=rCnR...

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Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, former Disney Professor of Archaeology and founding Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, has sadly died aged 87. Read the full tribute in honour of Colin, who will be deeply missed. arch.cam.ac.uk/news/professor…

🚨Just in time for New Year: my book is being released! "The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization" explores the origins & uses of #plants in the #IndusCivilization. Published with Cambridge University Press , it synthesizes #genetics, #archaeobotany, & #archaeology.

The 1st half outlines how different plants were #domesticated & arrived in the zone, & the 2nd part showcases the ways that people used them in #food, how the #environment was changed by #agriculture, & what the impact of #climatechange might have been on the #Harappan people.

FYI... digital access is already available: cambridge.org/core/books/ori…