After more than eighty years of international research on the Indus Civilization, this geographically extensive ancient society remains deeply enigmatic. With no known monumental art or deciphered texts, the largest category of representational art recovered from many Indus sites is terracotta figurines. In this detailed research report, archaeologist Sharri R. Clark examines and recontextualizes a rich and diverse corpus of hundreds of figurines from the urban site of Harappa (ca. 3300 1700 BC) to reveal new information about Indus ideology and society. The hand-modeled figurines including...
After more than eighty years of international research on the Indus Civilization, this geographically extensive ancient society remains deeply enigmat...