The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) was one of the first great civilizations in prehistory. This bronze age civilization flourished from the end of the fourth millennium BC. It disintegrated during the second millennium BC; despite much research effort, this decline is not well understood. Less research has been devoted to the emergence of the IVC, which shows continuous cultural precursors sin...

This paper studies the street and block plans of Mohenjodaro and Sirkap of Pakistan, and Thimi of Kathmandu Valley. Mohenjodaro was a reknowned city of Indus civilization, while Sirkap of Taxila, was an important cultural center in later half of first millennium BC. While both of the cities are archaeological remains, Thimi is still a living town. The three cities, apparently separated by enorm...

The sand intervals of the Lower Goru Formation of the Cretaceous age, widely distributed in the Middle and Lower Indus Basin of Pakistan, are proven reservoirs. However, in the Sawan gas field of the Middle Indus Basin, these sandstone intervals are very deep and extremely heterogeneous in character, which makes it difficult to discriminate lithologies and fluid saturation. Based on petrophysic...

This research focuses on studying the pottery sherds collected in period 2018–19 from settlement DH7 northern al-Batinah region north-eastern Oman. The material mainly comes stratified contexts largest building at settlement, S42, whose function is interpreted as a warehouse. Three main classes of are recognised: Indus red micaceous ware, Umm an-Nar fine ware and Dahwa sandy buff ware. Compared...

Siloed-approaches may fuel the misguided development of hydropower and subsequent target-setting under sustainable goals (SDGs). While in Indus basin is vital to ensure energy security (SDG7), it needs be balanced with water use for fulfilling food (SDG2) (SDG6) security. Existing methods estimate potential generally focus on: only one class potential, a methodological advance either siting, si...

In a recent Last Words column (Sproat 2010), Richard Sproat of the Oregon Health and Science University laments the reviewing practices of “general science journals” after dismissing our work and that of Lee, Jonathan, and Ziman (2010) as “useless” and “trivially and demonstrably wrong.” While we expect such categorical statements to have already raised some red flags in the minds of readers, w...