Current Studies on the Indus Civilization, Volume I

Toshiki Osada is a Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto and the leader of Indus Project since 2007. He is a linguist working on South Asian Languages, especially the Munda languages spoken in Jharkhand. He has edited Indus Civilization: Text and Context, Vol. 1 (2006), Vol. 2 (2009) and Linguistics, Archaeology and the Human Past in South Asia (2009), all published from Manohar. Akinori Uesugi is a research scholar attached to the Indus Project since 2007. He has a long experience of several excavations in South Asia and specializes on Harappan archaeology.

Preface; The spread of textile production and textile crops in India beyond the Harappan zone: An aspect of the emergence of craft specialization and systematic trade by Dorian Q Fuller; Recent archaeological discoveries in Sindh, Pakistan by Qasid H. Mallah; Exploration in the Ghaggar Basin and excavations at Girawad, Farmana (Rhotak District) and Mitathal (Bhiwani District), Haryana, India by Vasant Shinde, Toshiki Osada, M.M Sharma, Akinori Uesugi, Takao Uno, Hideaki Maemoku, Prabodh Shirvalkar, Shweta Sinha Deshpande, Amol Kulkarni, Amrita Sarkar, Anjana Reddy, Vinay Rao and Vivek Dangi; Re-evaluating the linguistic prehistory of South Asia by Roger Blench.