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Science 6 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5881, pp. 1276 - 1281
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5881.1276
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UNMASKING THE INDUS:
Boring No More, a Trade-Savvy Indus Emerges

Andrew Lawler

Long in the shadow of its sister civilizations to the west, the Indus is emerging as the powerhouse of commerce and technology in the 3rd millennium B.C.E. But political and economic troubles dog archaeologists' efforts to understand what made this vast society tick.

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