Flint quarries in the Rohri hills supplied stone to the city of Mohenjo-Daro, out on the silty river-plain and lacking local supply. A new survey has identified workshop sites and an extraordinary scale of production. In his geology of Western Sind, Blandford reports on the presence of flint cores and flakes on the hills near Sukkur and Rohri. A more accurate description of both Palaeolithic and Harappan assemblages is presented by De Terra & Paterson, who also suggested that some of the flint tools they saw on the Rohri Hills, which resembled those from Mohenjo-Daro, were to be attributed to the Harappan civilization. More recently, investigations were carried out by Allchin in 1975-6. She discovered several Palaeolithic and Harappan sites mainly located in the northern and south-western ends of the hills. Recent and old excavations conducted at Mohenjo-Daro have revealed that the flint employed by the Harappan communities was not available from the silty-clayey alluvial plain of the River Indus, but had been imported from outside. The more probable source for raw material is that of the Rohri Hills that lie close to Kot Diji and some 50km to the northeast of Mohenjo-Daro. They are composed of stratified cherty limestones, their surface is actually covered with an extraordinary amount of flint nodules whose presence is to be related with Late Tertiary weathering. -from Authors

The Harrapan flint quarries of the Rohri Hills (Sind - Pakistan) / P. Biagi, M. Cremaschi. - In: ANTIQUITY. - ISSN 0003-598X. - 65:246(1991), pp. 97-102.

The Harrapan flint quarries of the Rohri Hills (Sind - Pakistan)

M. Cremaschi
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1991

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Flint quarries in the Rohri hills supplied stone to the city of Mohenjo-Daro, out on the silty river-plain and lacking local supply. A new survey has identified workshop sites and an extraordinary scale of production. In his geology of Western Sind, Blandford reports on the presence of flint cores and flakes on the hills near Sukkur and Rohri. A more accurate description of both Palaeolithic and Harappan assemblages is presented by De Terra & Paterson, who also suggested that some of the flint tools they saw on the Rohri Hills, which resembled those from Mohenjo-Daro, were to be attributed to the Harappan civilization. More recently, investigations were carried out by Allchin in 1975-6. She discovered several Palaeolithic and Harappan sites mainly located in the northern and south-western ends of the hills. Recent and old excavations conducted at Mohenjo-Daro have revealed that the flint employed by the Harappan communities was not available from the silty-clayey alluvial plain of the River Indus, but had been imported from outside. The more probable source for raw material is that of the Rohri Hills that lie close to Kot Diji and some 50km to the northeast of Mohenjo-Daro. They are composed of stratified cherty limestones, their surface is actually covered with an extraordinary amount of flint nodules whose presence is to be related with Late Tertiary weathering. -from Authors
Neolitico, selce, olocene, cambiamento climatico
Settore L-ANT/01 - Preistoria e Protostoria
1991
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