Sarasvati Civilization

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Making Vedic Sarasvati flow again…

A series of articles by Andrew Lawler are in the Special issue of Science 6 June 2008. The title of the series is: Unmasking the Indus.

Thanks to Andrew Lawler for presenting a perspective from the Pakistan side. It will be instructive to take a fresh look at the civilization from the basin of Vedic River Sarasvati detailed in 13 volumes at http://sarasvati97.blogspot.com This will help achieve a cease-fire in what Andrew calls the trench-warfare. After all, borders did NOT exist ca. 3rd millennium BCE. The only waterways which linked the trade-savvy civilization were Sarasvati, Sindhu (Indus), Persian Gulf, Gulf of Kutch and Gulf of Khambat and the principal artefacts which linked the literate civilization were lapidary crafts, metallurgy of alloying and a writing system using Sarasvati hieroglyphs of mleccha (meluhha).

This is to make Sarasvati flow again…Yes, the same Vedic Sarasvati referred to as sarasvati saptathi sindhumaataa… (Trans. Sarasvati, the seventh, the mother of rivers…)

Dr. S. Kalyanaraman

Science 6 June 2008: Vol. 320. no. 5881, pp.1276 -1285
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.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/sh.../5881/1276

Science 6 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5881, p. 1280
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5881.1280
UNMASKING THE INDUS:
Buddhist Stupa or Indus Temple?

Andrew Lawler

A Buddhist stupa in the center of the largest Indus city may actually be a monument from Indus times. If so, it will force Indus scholars to rethink the religious and political nature of the civilization, long thought to lack grand temples and palaces

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/sh.../5881/1280

Science 6 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5881, pp. 1281 - 1283
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5881.1281
UNMASKING THE INDUS:
Indus Collapse: The End or the Beginning of an Asian Culture?

Andrew Lawler

The puzzling downfall of an ancient civilization more than 3 millennia ago sparks debate today in both scientific and political circles.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/sh.../5881/1281

Science 6 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5881, pp. 1282 - 1283
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5881.1282
UNMASKING THE INDUS:
Trench Warfare: Modern Borders Split the Indus

Andrew Lawler

The bitter partition of British India in 1947 created a fault line through the middle of what was once the Indus civilization that to this day prevents Indian and Pakistani researchers working on Indus sites from collaborating with one another or even visiting each other's excavations.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/sh.../5881/1282

Science 6 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5881, pp. 1284 - 1285
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5881.1284
UNMASKING THE INDUS:
Trying to Make Way for the Old

Andrew Lawler

Archaeologists battle looters and sometimes locals in both Pakistan and India as they seek to excavate before modern development swallows Indus cities.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/sh.../5881/1284

Science 6 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5881, p. 1285
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5881.1285
UNMASKING THE INDUS:
Pakistani Archaeology Faces Issues Old and New

Andrew Lawler

Finds in Pakistan are opening a new window on the Indus civilization, showing that this remote region was settled for thousands of years. But there are tight constraints on where archaeologists can operate.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/sh.../5881/1285