Indus; Harappa; South Asia; Blade Technology; Stone Tools; Urbanism (Other Keyword)
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Urban Lithics -- The role of stone tools in the Indus and at Harappa (2015)
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Lithics are one of the most common artifact classes encountered at nearly every site of the urbanized landscape of the Indus Civilization of Pakistan and Northwest India. This paper examines the lithic assemblage at the urban center of Harappa (3300-1900 BCE), one of the type-sites of the Indus, focusing on the chipped stone assemblage collected by the HARP excavations from 1986-2001. This assemblage is contextualized within the specialized production and the complex inter-regional distribution...