This is the third volume in Current Studies on the Indus Civilization. It contains four papers, Jeewan Singh Kharakwal and others have presented the second season's report of excavation at Kaner, Kachchh, Gujarat in the season of 2006-2007. In addition to this main portion of report, P.P. Joglekar and Pankaj Goel have reported on the fauna analysis at Kanmer and Professors Rajaguru and G. Deo Have contributed a preliminary report on the geological issues in the environment of Kachchh area. Moreover, GIS archaeology is applied to the Kanmer site by Teramura and others. Professor Peter Underhill has given us a paper on DNA analysis of human genetics.

Toshiki Osada is a Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)., Kyoto and the leader of Indus Project since 2007. He is a linguist working on South Asian Languages, especially the Munda languages spoken in Jharkhand. He has edited the books titled Indus Civilization: Text and Context, vol.1 (2006), vol.2 (2009) and Linguistics, ARchaeology and the Human Past in South Asia (2009), all published from Manohar. Akinori Uesugi is a research scholar attached to the Indus Project since 2007. He has a long experience of several excavations in South Asia and specialized on Harappan archaeology.