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This volume, Indus Age: The Beginnings, sets the stage for the Mature Harappan Civilization. Part one presents the theory, and philosophy of the series, as well as some definitional and technical information, such as radiocarbon dates, and comments on physical anthropology. This is followed by the story of the discovery of the Harappan civilization. Part two starts in the early nineteenth century when the city of Harappa was visited by antiquarians with no ...
The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and as equally complex as, the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, marshals the state of knowledge about this fascinating culture in a readable synthesis. He traces the rise and fall of this civilization; examines the economic, architectural, artistic, religious, and intellectual components of this culture; describes ...
The Indus Civilization in Saurashtra explores the nature of ancient India’s first urban culture inGujarat. The mataerial on which this books is based was derived from Dr. Possehl’s research program in this region and the Appendices accompanying the text provide complete coverage of his data. One of the contributions this work seeks to make is a more complete understanding of the important Harappan site of Lothal to the south-west of Ahmedabad. An original ...