IVC- ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORKS

1. Mark Kenoyer Doctoral Dissertation: Shell Working Industries of the Indus Civilization:
An Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspective. Advisor Dr. George F. Dales
1977

Dr. Kenoyer’s research interests include the archaeology of early urbanism and state level
society, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, ancient technology and quantitative
methods. His geographic areas of interest include South Asia (particularly India and Pakistan),
West Asia, East and Southeast Asia.

Dr. Kenoyer has been excavating and carrying out research on the Indus Civilization since 1975
and has excavated at the site of Harappa, Pakistan since 1986. He has also worked at sites and
ethnoarchaeological projects in India and more recently in Oman. He has a special interest in
ancient technologies and crafts, socio-economic and political organization as well as religion.
These interests have led him to study a broad range of cultural periods in South Asia as well as
other regions of the world. As part of his research on ancient bead technologies, he has
undertaken studies of collections throughout the world, with a special focus on West Asia,
China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. His publications include monographs on the
Indus civilization as well as numerous articles, a grade school book on ancient South Asia and
even a coloring book on the Indus cities for children.

He was Guest Curator with the Asia Society for the exhibition on the Ancient Cities of the Indus
Valley Civilization, which toured the U.S. in 1998-1999. He was a special consultant for the Art
of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus exhibition at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2002.

 2. HARAPPA ANCESTRY PROJECT

23andme

“It is a project to analyze (autosomal) genetic data of participants of South Asian origin for the
purpose of providing detailed ancestry information. So the focus of the project is on South
Asians: Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.

The project will collect 23andme raw genetic data from participants to better understand the
ancestry relationships of different South Asian ethnicities.

3. Sir Mortimer Wheeler- As Director-General of Archaeology in India, he investigated the Indus

civilization- Atranjikhera

4. Gwen Robbins Schug- most recently began work on a project entitled, "Bioarchaeology of
Harappa: Anthropological Research And Training (BHARAT)". This project seeks to understand
life at one of the least well known cities in the Indus Civilization using the human skeletal
material from excavations that occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century. The goals of
this project are to 1) understand who was buried in the cemetery and why only a small fraction of
the city's residents were buried; 2) examine the heterogeneity of frailty (health status of
individuals who died in the perinatal, infant and childhood life stages, as opposed to the
population of adults); 3) examine the pathological profile at Harappa, specifically the presence
and prevalence of infectious diseases; and 4) examine evidence for skeletal trauma--accidental
injuries, interpersonal violence, and medical intervention.

This project was funded by a Fulbright Research Fellowship from the United States India
Educational Foundation. The research project was inspired by Dr. Schug's earlier research
uncovering evidence for leprosy at a post-urban outpost of the Indus Civilization.

5. Archaeologist Brian Fagan wrote a broadly informative book called Elixir: A History of Water
and Humankind. Arguably, no other variable has had such a significant impact on the rise and
fall of civilizations than water. The Indus Valley Harappan civilization appears to be no
exception

6. Mortimer Wheeler vs Lenneth Kennedy