Over the last several decades new sets of information have provided a more detailed understanding of the rise and character of the Indus Civilization as well as its decline and decentralization. This article begins with a summary of the major historical developments in the archaeology of the Indus Valley Tradition and a definition of terms found in the literature. A general discussion of the en...

Tectonic interpretations of arc remnants in the Himalayan orogen remain uncertain, despite their important implications for overall convergence history between India and Eurasia. Provenance results from deep-water volcaniclastic rocks Indus Suture Zone Ladakh provide new constraints on Mesozoic tectonic evolution Dras Kohistan-Ladakh arcs. Detrital zircon (DZ) U-Pb ages whole-rock geochemistry ...

In the southern Tibetan plateau, which is considered to be the ongoing India–Eurasia continental collision zone, tracing of the Indian crustal front beneath Tibet is still controversial. We conducted deep subsurface electrical modeling in southern Tibet and discuss the geometry of the front of the Indian crust. Three areas along the Yarlung-Zangbo river zone for which previous magnetotelluric (...

He–Pb double dating of detrital zircons is more reliable than conventional U–Pb dating for tracing the source of detritus in sediments and can be used to constrain the percentage of recycled material in sediments. Conventional U–Pb dating can be used to constrain the provenance of sediments if the U–Pb zircon age pattern for potential source regions is known but can only be used to trace the so...

The Indus script is one of the major undeciphered scripts of the ancient world. The small size of the corpus, the absence of bilingual texts, and the lack of definite knowledge of the underlying language has frustrated efforts at decipherment since the discovery of the remains of the Indus civilization. Building on previous statistical approaches, we apply the tools of statistical language proc...

has to be expanded further to provide for a study of evolution and formation of Indian languages in the Indian language union (sprachbund). The paper analyses the stages in the evolution of early writing systems which began with the evolution of counting in the ancient Near East. Providing an example from the Indian Hieroglyphs used in Indus Script as a writing system, a stage anterior to the s...

High-resolution meteorological datasets are urgently needed for understanding the hydrological cycle of Tibetan Plateau (TP), where ground-based stations sparse. Rapid advances in remote sensing create possibilities to represent spatiotemporal properties precipitation at a high resolution. In this study, hourly characteristics over TP from two gridded products, one global reanalysis (the fifth ...