What facets unite the 2000+ archaeological sites out of 2600+ sites of the civilization? These can be summarized as:
1. Navigable waterway of Sarasvati River;
2. Common language;
3. Common Writing system called Indus Script; the decipherment indicates meticulous documentation of wealth-accounting ledgers by guilds of artisans and seafaring merchants;
4.Industrial scale organization of production of bronze age products traded along an Ancient maritime Tin Route between Hanoi (Vietnam) and Haifa (Israel);
5. Creating the shared wealth of a nation through guilds.
Cameron A. Petrie et al., 2017, Looking beneath the Veneer Thoughts about Environmental and Cultural Diversity in the Indus Civilization in: Dennys Frenez et al (eds.), Walking with the Unicorn, Archaeopress, pp. 453-474
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