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Shell trade and shell working during the Neolithic and early Chalcolithic at Mehrgarh, Pakistanessay 1995 • Kenoyer, Jonathan M.
Early Indus • Asia > South Asia
The author analyzed shell artifacts from Mehrgarh, where the Period III manufacture of marine shell would have been an element in Mehrgarh’s involvement in interaction networks extending from the Indus plain to the highland plateaus of Iran and Afgha...Urban process in the Indus traditionessay 1991 • Kenoyer, Jonathan M.
Early Indus • Asia > South Asia
The author discusses excavation finds at Harappa that provide clues to settlement use. Large mud-brick revetment walls, built at the end of Period 1, indicate early city planning. Such construction would have required a degree of sociopolitical organ...Ancient cities of the Indus Valley civilizationBook 1998 • Kenoyer, Jonathan M.
Mature Indus • Asia > South Asia
This is an extensive overview of the Indus sequence, from the Regionalization Era to the Localization Era, concentrating on the cities where most excavations have occurred; only portions pertaining to the Mature Indus are relevant to this collection....Urban process in the Indus traditionessay 1991 • Kenoyer, Jonathan M.
Mature Indus • Asia > South Asia
The author discusses excavation finds at Harappa that provide clues to settlement use. The project was designed to collect data to test two models of urban development, and results do indicate early city planning, with continuity throughout five peri...Socio-ritual artifacts of upper paleolithic hunter-gatherers in south Asiaessay 1992 • Kenoyer, Jonathan M.
South Asian Upper Paleolithic • Asia > South Asia
The author discusses various artifacts (many lacking secure dating) from throughout the subcontinent that may have ritual significance, concentrating on a probable shrine at the site of Baghor I in Madhya Pradesh, India....Harappaarticle 1999 • Kenoyer, Jonathan M. & Meadow, Richard H.
Early Indus • Asia > South Asia
This document provides a very brief description of ongoing excavations at Harappa. It presents dates for the various phases (especially Ravi and Kot Dijian), explains how they were defined, and discusses the diagnostic artifacts....Mehrgarh field reports 1975 to 1985, from the Neolithic to the Indus civilization 1995 • Jarrige, Catherine et al.
Indus Neolithic • Asia > South Asia
This document contains the field reports from each of the eleven field seasons at the site of Mehrgarh without any editing to make a cohesive document; only footnotes have been added. This means 'the reader will note changes in interpretation as well...