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Harappan civilization: a recent perspective
Gregory L. Possehl
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Frontmatter
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Preface to the Second Revised Edition (page v)
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Preface to the First Edition (page vii)
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Contributors and Participants (page xiii)
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Illustration Credits (page xvii)
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List of Abbreviations (page xix)
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Introduction
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B.K. THAPAR: The Harappan Civilization: Some Reflections on Its Environments and Resources and Their Exploitation (page 3)
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GREGORY L. POSSEHL: The Harappan Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective (page 15)
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PART I. The Nature of Harappan Urbanization
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1. VISHNU-MITTRE: The Harappan Civilization and the Need for a New Approach (page 31)
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2. JIM G. SHAFFER: Harappan Culture: A Reconsideration (page 41)
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3. S.P. GUPTA: The Late Harappan: A Study in Cultural Dynamics (page 51)
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4. C.C. LAMBERG-KARLOVSKY: Sumer, Elam and the Indus: Three Urban Processes Equal One Structure? (page 61)
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5. K.V. SOUNDARA RAJAN: Motivations for Early Indian Urbanization: An Examination (page 69)
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PART II: Results of Recent Fieldwork
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6. JEAN-FRANÇOIS JARRIGE: Excavations at Mehrgarh: Their Significance for Understanding the Background of the Harappan Civilization (page 79)
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7. M. RAFIQUE MUGHAL: Recent Archaeological Research in the Cholistan Desert (page 85)
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8. GEORGE F. DALES: Mohenjodaro Miscellany: Some Unpublished, Forgotten, or Misinterpreted Features (page 97)
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9. WALTER A. FAIRSERVIS, JR.: Allahdino: An Excavation of a Small Harappan Site (page 107)
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10. R.S. BISHT: Excavations at Banawali: 1974-77 (page 113)
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11. R.C. AGRAWALA and VIJAY KUMAR: Ganeshwar-Jodhpura Culture: New Traits in Indian Archaeology (page 125)
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12. B.P. SINHA: Harappan Fallout(?) in the Mid-Gangetic Valley (page 135)
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13. Y.D. SHARMA: Harappan Complex on the Sutlej (India) (page 141)
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14. R.N. MEHTA: Some Rural Harappan Settlements in Gujarat (page 167)
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15. S.A. SALI: The Harappans of Daimabad (page 175)
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16. JAGAT PATI JOSHI and MADHU BALA: Manda: A Harappan Site in Jammu and Kashmir (page 185)
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17. Y.M. CHITALWALA: Harappan Settlements in the Kutch-Saurashtra Region: Patterns of Distribution and Routes of Communication (page 197)
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PART III. Ecology, Technology and Trade
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18. VISHNU-MITTRE and R. SAVITHRI: Food Economy of the Harappans (page 205)
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19. D.P. AGRAWAL and R.K. SOOD: Ecological Factors and the Harappan Civilization (page 223)
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20. BRIDGET ALLCHIN: Substitute Stones (page 233)
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21. K.T.M. HEGDE, R.V. KARANTH and S.P. SYCHANTHAVONG: On the Composition and Technology of Harappan Microbeads (page 239)
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22. MARCIA FENTRESS: From Jhelum to Yamuna: City and Settlement in the Second and Third Millennium B.C. (page 245)
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23. SHEREEN RATNAGAR: The Location of Harappa (page 261)
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24. DILIP K. CHAKRABARTI: 'Long Barrel-Cylinder' Beads and the Issue of Pre-Sargonic Contact between the Harappan Civilization and Mesopotamia (page 265)
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25. SHASHI ASTHANA: Harappan Trade in Metals and Minerals: A Regional Approach (page 271)
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26. STEVEN A. WEBER: Changes in Plant Use at Rojdi: Implications for Early South Asian Subsistence Systems (page 287)
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27. RICHARD H. MEADOW: Animal Domestication in the Middle East: A Revised View from the Eastern Margin (page 295)
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PART IV: Harappan Archaeology and the Gulf
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28. DANIEL T. POTTS: Tell Abraq and the Harappan Tradition in Southeastern Arabia (page 323)
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29. CHRISTOPHER EDENS: Indus-Arabian Interaction during the Bronze Age: A Review of Evidence (page 335)
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30. MAURIZIO TOSI: The Harappan Civilization beyond the Indian Subcontinent (page 365)
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PART V: The Later Phases of the Harappan Tradition
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31. A. GHOSH: Deurbanization of the Harappan Civilization (page 381)
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32. F.R. ALLCHIN: The Legacy of the Indus Civilization (page 385)
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33. B.B. LAL: 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 (page 395)
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34. K.N. DIKSHIT: Hulas and the Late Harappan Complex in Western Uttar Pradesh (page 399)
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35. S.R. RAO: New Light on the Post-Urban (Late Harappan) Phase of the Indus Civilization in India (page 413)
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36. M.K. DHAVALIKAR: Daimabad Bronzes (page 421)
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37. ROBERT SHARER: Did the Maya Collapse? A New World Perspective on the Demise of the Harappan Civilization (page 427)
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38. D.P. AGRAWAL: The Harappan Legacy: Break and Continuity (page 445)
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PART VI: New Excavation Reports
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39. LOUIS FLAM: Excavations at Ghazi Shah, Sindh, Pakistan (page 457)
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40. GEORGE F. DALES and J. MARK KENOYER: The Harappan Project 1986-1989: New Investigation at an Ancient Indus City (page 469)
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41. BRIDGET ALLCHIN and RAYMOND ALLCHIN: Lewan-A Stone Tool Factory of the Fourth to Third Millennium B.C. (page 521)
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42. M.K. DHAVALIKAR: Harappans in Saurastra: The Mercantile Enterprise as Seen from Recent Excavation of Kuntasi (page 555)
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PART VII: Conclusion
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43. ROBERT H. DYSON, JR.: Paradigm Changes in the Study of the Indus Civilization (page 571)
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Index (page 583)
| Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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| AA | 49.1 (Jan. 1984): 212 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7316%28198401%2949%3A1%3C212%3AHCACP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G |
| BSOAS | 46.3 (1983): 565-566 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281983%2946%3A3%3C565%3AHCACP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y |
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Published: c1993
Publisher: Oxford & IBH Publishing
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