Indus Age: The Beginnings

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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 knowledge of the older history of Pakistan or India. The story is told of the leadership of the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, Sir John Mashall. New biographical and historical material, some of it from the archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, is presented. The reinvigoration of the Archaeological Survey of India under the guidance of Sir Mortimer Wheeler brings the story of discovery to a close with the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Part three is a detailed discussion of cultural geography, which offers a regional perspective on the Greater Indus area using the concept of a "Domain". Part four is a culture history of the peoples of the Indus age from the beginnings of food production and domestication of plants and animals to the threshold of civilization in the region. Indus Age: The Beginnings is the second of four books written by Dr. Gregory L. Possehl. The first to be published was Indus Age: The Writing System. The others will be Indus Age: The Mature Harappan and Indus Age: The Transformation. Taken together they will form a comprehensive overview of the ancient cities of the Indus, from the beginnings of village farming communities through the transformation or eclipse of the civilization.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gregory L Possehl

Dr. Gregory L. Possehl is Assistant Curator of South Asian Archaeology in the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania and an Assistant Porofessor in this University’s Department of South Asia regional Studies. He has undertaken archaeological field work in Egypt, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and India as well as the United States. He was education as an Anthropologist at the University of Washington and the University of Chicago where he received his Ph. D in 1974. Dr. Possehl’s interests in archaeology center on the character of prehistoric adaptation especially the nature off food producing subsistence systems. He has written widely on this and related topics for periodicals in both the United Stes and India. In addition to the Indus Civilization in Saurashtra Dr. Possehl has published Ancient Cities of the Indus and KULLI: Trade and the Emerrgence of Urbanization in the Indus Valley as well as The Ecological Backgrounds of South Asian Prehistory, which he edited with Dr. Kenneth A.R. Kennedy.

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Title
Indus Age: The Beginnings
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8120412966
Length
xxviii+1063p., Figures; Tables; Plates; Maps; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; 22cm.
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