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The Harappan flint quarries of the Rohri Hills (Sind-Pakistan)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paolo Biagi  and
Mauro Cremaschi
Paolo Biagi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Storico-Archeologiche e Orientalistiche, Università di Venezia. Palazzo Bernardo, S. Polo 1977A, I-30125 Venice, Italy
Mauro Cremaschi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra. Università di Milano, Via Mangiagalli 34, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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Extract

Flint quarries in the Rohri hills supplied stone to the city of Mohenjo-Daro, out on the silty river-plain and lacking local supply. A new survey has identified workshop sites and an extraordinary scale of production.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 246 , March 1991 , pp. 97 - 102
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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