Current Studies on the Indus Civilization, Volume III

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; Research report on surface and subsurface analysis of archeological sites around the lakes of the Dubi Mirwah Desert in Sindh, Pakistan by Qasid H. Mallah; Jaidak (Pithad): a Sorath Harappan site in Jamnagar district, Gujarat and its architectural features by P. Ajithprasad; Tomb of Shaikh Sadan Shaheed: A fabulous illustration of congenital architectural and decorative traditions by Farzand Masih; A history of fruits on the Southeast Asian mainland by Roger Blench.