Contributor
Possehl, Gregory L.
Edition Statement:2nd rev. ed.
Imprint:New Delhi : American Institute of Indian Studies and Oxford & IBH Pub. Co., c1993.
Descriptionxv, 595 p., [120] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Note:INTRODUCTION: The Harappan civilization: some reflections on its environments and resources and their exploitation / B.K. Thapar -- The Harappan civilization: a contemporary perspective / Gregory L. Possehl -- PART I. THE NATURE OF HARAPPAN URBANIZATION: 1. The Harappan civilization and the need for a new approach / Vishnu-Mittre -- 2. Harappan culture: a reconsideration / Jim G. Shaffer -- 3. The late Harappan: a study in cultural dynamics / S.P. Gupta -- 4. Sumer, Elam and the Indus: three urban processes equal one structure? / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- 5. Motivations for early Indian urbanization: an examination / K.V. Soundara Rajan -- PART II: RESULTS OF RECENT FIELDWORK: 6. Excavations at Mehrgarh: their significance for understanding the background of the Harappan civilization / Jean-François Jarrige -- 7. Recent archaeological research in the Cholistan Desert / M. Rafique Mughal -- 8. Mohenjodaro miscellany: some unpublished, forgotten, or misinterpreted features / George F. Dales -- 9. Allahdino: an excavation of a small Harappan site / Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. -- 10. Excavations at Banawali: 1974-77 / R.S. Bisht -- 11. Ganeshwar-Jodhpura culture: new traits in Indian archaeology / R.C.Agrawala, Vijay Kumar -- 12. Harappan fallout (?) in the mid-Gangetic Valley / B.P. Sinha -- 13. Harappan complex on the Sutlej (India) / Y.D Sharma -- - 14. Some rural Harappan settlements in Gujarat / R.N. Mehta -- 15. The Harappans of Daimabad / S.A. Sali -- 16. Harappan settlements in the Kutch-Saurashtra region: patterns of distribution and routes of communication / Y.M Chitalwala -- PART III: ECOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE: 18. Food economy of the Harappans / Vishnu-Mittre, R. Savithri -- 19. Ecological factors and the Harappan civilization / D.P. Agrawal, R.K. Sood -- 20. Substitute stones / Bridget Allchin -- 21. On the composition and technology of Harappan microbeads / K.T.M. Hedge, R.V. Karanth, S.P. Sychanthavong -- 22. From Jhelum to Yamuna: city and settlement in the second and third millennium B.C. / Marcia Fentress -- 23. The location of Harappa / Shereen Ratnagar -- 24. "Long barrel-cylinder" beads and the issues of pre-Sargonic contact between the Harappan civilization and Mesopotamia -- 25. Harappan trade in metals and minerals: a regional approach / Shashi Asthana -- 26. Changes in plant use at Rojdi: implications for early South Asian subsistence systems / Steven A. Weber -- 27. Animal domestication in the Middle East: a revised veiw from the eastern margin / Richard H. Meadow -- PART IV: HARAPPAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE GULF: 28. Tell Abraq and the Harappan tradition in southeastern Arabia / Daniel T. Potts -- 29. Indus-Arabian interaction during the Bronze Age: a review of evidence / Christopher Edens -- 30. The Harappan civilization beyond the Indian subcontinent / Maurizio Tosi -- PART V: THE LATER PHASES OF THE HARAPPAN TRADITION: 31. Deurbanization of the Harappan civilization / A. Ghosh -- 32. The legacy of the Indus civilization / F.R. Allchin -- 33. West was west and east was east, but when and how did the twain meet? The role of Bhagwanpura as a bridge between certain stages of the Indus and Ganges civilizations / B.B. Lal -- 34. Hulas and the late Harappan complex in westrn Uttar Pradesh / K.N. Dikshit -- 35. New light on the post-urban (late Harappan) phase of the Indus civilization in India / S.R. Rao -- 36. Daimabad bronzes / M.K. Dhavalikar -- 37. Did the Maya collapse? a new world perspective on the demise of the Harappan civilization / Robert Sharer -- 38. The Harappan legacy: break and continuity / D.P. Agrawal -- PART VI: NEW EXCAVATION REPORTS: 39. Excavations at Ghazi Shah, Sindh, Pakistan / Louis Flam -- 40. The Harappan project 1986-1989: new investigation at an ancient Indus city / George F. Dales, J. Mark Kenoyer -- 41. Lewan: a stone tool factory of the fourth to third millenium B.C. / Bridget Allchin, Raymond Allchin -- 42. Harappans in Saurastra: the mercantile enterprise as seen from recent excavation of Kuntasi / M.K. Dhavalikar -- PART VII: CONCLUSION: 43. Paradigm changes in the study of the Indus civilization / Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
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