Author: Raymond Allchin
Bridget Allchin/
Publisher: Cambridge University press
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 379
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185618720
Description
Illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and line diagrams, this work incorporates the results of the most recent research offering an original and stimulating perspective on the archaeology of the subcontinent.
Many spectacular discoveries of archaeological significance have been made in the Indian subcontinent since the first appearance of Raymond and Bridget Allchin' book: The Birth of Indian Civilization, for long the most authoritative and widely read text on its subject.
Advances in related fields, particularly in geomorphology, palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology, have also radically altered our picture of the emergence of Indian civilization. In this work, the authors have completely revised and rewritten their earlier work to present an integrated and dynamic account of human culture in South Asia.
An invaluable offering to students of South Asian culture and early history. It will also appeal to anyone interested in historical geography, world prehistory and archaeology in general.
THE AUTHORS:
Raymond Allchin is Reader in Indian Studies, University of Cambridge; Bridget Allchin is Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Contents
List of tables and figures
Preface
CHAPTER I
Archaeology in South Asia
PART I
CONSTITUENT ELEMENT
CHAPTER II
Prehistoric Environments
CHAPTER III
The earliest South Asians
CHAPTER IV
Hunter-gatherers and nomadic pastoralists
CHAPTER V
The First Agricultural Communities
PART II
INDUS URBANISM
CHAPTER VI
The Early Indus Period
CHAPTER VII
The Mature Indus Civilization - 1
The Mature Indus Civilization - 2
PART III
THE LEGACY OF THE INDUS CIVILIZATION
CHAPTER IX
The aftermath of the Indus civilization in the Indus and Ganges Systems
CHAPTER X
The aftermath of the Indus Civilization in Peninsular India
CHAPTER XI
The arrival of Indo-Aryan speaking people and the spread of the Indo-Aryan languages
CHAPTER XII
The Iron Age and the emergence of classical Indian civilization
CHAPTER XIII
Subcontinental unity and regional diversity
Select general bibliography
Index