CURRENT STUD.ON INDUS VIII: Volume 8: Inter-Regional Interaction & Urbanism in the Ancient Indus Valley (Parts 1 & 2) - Hardcover

LAW, RANDALL WILLIAM

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8173049300 ISBN 13: 9788173049309

Publisher: Manohar Publishers (IND), 2011

Synopsis

The first part of the eighth volume of Current Studies on the Indus Civilisation is an examination of inter-regional interaction and urbanism in the Greater Indus region of Pakistan and north-western India during the period that encompassed the development, existence and decline of South Asia's first urbanised society. The principal research objective is to identify the geologic sources from which the stone and metal artefacts excavated at Harappa -- a site that grew from a small village to become one of the largest Indus Civilisation cities, were most likely derived. Using techniques ranging from studies of basic macroscopic and mineralogical attributes to highly precise and accurate isotopic and elemental assays, grindingstone, chert, steatite, agate, vesuvianite-grossular, alabaster, limestone and various metal artefacts are directly compared to geologic samples of those materials collected from sources across South Asia. Geologic provenance determinations, periodised with reference to Harappa's detailed chronological sequence, are used to inform three lines of inquiry. The first two concern identifying the Harappans' inter-regional relationships, defining their extent and tracking them through time. The third involves elucidating synchronic variations in those relationships at the local or site level.

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About the Author

Randall William Law, PhD, is a lecturer and honorary fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since joining the Harappa Archaeological Research Project in 2000, he has traveled extensively across Pakistan, India and Oman seeking out the geologic sources of the stone and metal artefacts excavated at Indus Civilization sites. He has authored numerous scholarly papers on this work and has been the recipient of grants from Fulbright-IIE, the American Institute for Pakistan Studies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manohar Publishers (IND)
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8173049300
• ISBN 13: 9788173049309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1