c. 2600 – 1900 BCE · Northwest
Indus / Harappan
Spindle whorls, bead workshops and figurines in quantity, with no readable text to name any of it.
In progress — awaiting sourcesThis slot is placed, not written
The period has a page, a date range and a position in the chronology. What it does not have yet is sourced material, and nothing will be put here that is not sourced.
Placed slots exist so the scope of the site is visible before it is finished, and so a gap reads as a gap rather than as an absence of evidence.
What it is waiting on
01Objects with a named collection or find site
02A citation per claim — inscription, excavation report, or published study
03What each object does and does not prove, stated separately
04A confidence level per plate: attested, inferred, or by continuity
Sources
Numbered against the plates above. Where a plate is a reconstruction rather than a photograph, the note says what the drawing was built from.
—Sources for this era are being compiled. Each plate above will carry a numbered footnote to a specific work once they are in.