Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series

This presentation will focus on marine shell working traditions of the Indus or Harappan Civilization the fully urban period referred to as the Harappa Phase (2600-1900 BCE). The coastal regions of Gujarat in Western India, particularly the Little Rann of Kutch were important source areas for various shell species, both large gastropods such as Turbinella pyrum and Chicoreous ramosus, as well as various bivalves. Many important shell workshops have been discovered at both coastal and inland...