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Pyrotechnology was part of everyday life for the Indus people of the third millennium BCE. Through my surface surveys at the urban site of Harappa and from excavations, we see that craft production took place throughout the city, not primarily in a single ‘quarter’. There is als…

This dissertation is an examination of inter-regional interaction and urbanism in the Greater Indus region of Pakistan and northwestern India during the period that encompassed the development, existence and decline of South Asia's first urbanized society, the Indus Civilization…

After more than eighty years of research, the Indus Civilization (ca. 2600-1900 BC) remains largely enigmatic. The terracotta figurines are one of the largest and richest sources of information regarding Indus ideology and society. Unfortunately, the figurines have often been co…