Contents
Series Editor’s Preface, ix
Maps, xi
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Introduction, 3
The Indus in Its Setting, 3
A Lost Civilization, 4
A Land of Unsolved Mysteries, 4
PART 2: INDUS CIVILIZATION
Chapter 2 Location of the Indus Civilization and
Its Environmental Setting, 9
Location, 9
The Environmental Setting, 11
The Changing Landscape, 19
Environmental Degradation, 23
Chapter 3 Historical and Chronological Setting, 27
History of the Investigation of South Asia’s Past, 27
Studying the Indus Civilization, 41
Chapter 4 Origins, Growth, and Decline of the Indus Civilization, 53
Early South Asia (ca. 2 to 1 Million–7000 BCE), 53
Early Farmers in Northwest South Asia (7000–4300 BCE), 56
Later Settlements (4300–3200 BCE), 62
The Early Indus (Early Harappan) Period (3200–2600 BCE), 67
The Transition (2600 –2500/2450 BCE), 80
The Mature Indus Civilization (2600 –1900/1800 BCE), 83
The Posturban (Late Harappan) Period (1900/1800–1300 BCE), 91
Chapter 5 Economics, 109
Subsistence Patterns, 109
Arable Agriculture, 110
Animal Husbandry, 122
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