Fisher woman of my Mohenjo

Fig. 10 Fig. 11
represented the community of Indus merchants operating in
the area. The decline of the Indus Civilisation started in
ca. 1900 BC, and by ca. 1700 BC the majority of cities had been
abandoned. Aridification of the Indus region, which was most
probably triggered by climate change, is currently considered
as the main cause of such a decline.
Fig. 1 Sites distribution of the Indus Civilisation (Singh 2008) Fig.
2 Satellite view of Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan) © Google Earth Fig.
3 The Great Bath, Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan) (Kenoyer 1998)
Fig. 4 ‘Unicorn’ seal from Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan), The British Museum (ID 00345740001) © The Trustees of the British Museum
Fig. 5 Gaur (or Indian bison) seal from Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan), The British Museum (ID 00921727001) © The Trustees of the British Museum
Fig. 6 Zebu (or humped bull) seal from Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan), The British Museum (ID 00266458001) © The Trustees of the British Museum
Fig. 7 Elephant seal from Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan), The British Museum (ID 00345743001) © The Trustees of the British Museum Fig. 8
Rhinoceros seal from Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan), The British Museum (ID 00031575001) © The Trustees of the British Museum
Fig. 9 Terracotta figurines of human females from Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan), The British Museum (ID 00035448001) © The Trustees of the British
Museum Fig.10 Terracotta figurine of bull from Harappa (Pakistan), The British Museum (ID 00301039001) © The Trustees of the British Museum
Fig. 11 Terracotta figurine of zebu (or humped bull) from Mohenjodaro (Pakistan), The British Museum (ID 01613329277) © The Trustees
of the British Museum Fig. 12 ‘Gulf seal’ carved with gaur – or Indian bison – and short Indus inscription from Ur (Iraq),
The British Museum (ID 01416971001) © The Trustees of the British Museum
Fig. 13 Long-distance trade routes across Middle Asia (Singh 2008)