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Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048951811
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759116429
The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal 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 its most famous sites, and shows the relationships between the Indus Civilization and the other cultures of its time. As a sourcebook for scholars, a textbook for archaeology students, and an informative volume for the lay reader, The Indus Civilization will be an exciting and informative read.
Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : India
ISBN : 0759101728
A brief introduction to the history, archaeology, art, language, and culture of the Indus Valley civilization, written by the leading North American Indus archaeologist.
Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Brahmi alphabet
ISBN : 8120410831
Author : Irfan Habib
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015064789335
The Indus Civilization by Irfan Habib is the second monograph in the People s History of India series. It continues the story from the point reached in the earlier monograph, Prehistory. The dominant theme here is provided by the Indus Civilization. In addition, other contemporary and later cultures down to about 1500 BC, and the formation of the major language families of India, are discussed.The time with which this monograph deals is often called Protohistory, since it is close to the period when history can, at least partly, be reconstructed from literary texts. Since modern territorial boundaries make little sense when we deal with the past, India here means pre-partition India, and the area covered includes Afghanistan, south of the Hindukush mountains. A sub-chapter is accordingly devoted to the Helmand civilization, whose study is indispensable for putting the Indus civilization in a proper perspective.Irfan Habib, formerly Professor of History, Aligarh Muslim University, is author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556 1707 (1963; 2nd rev. edn, 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982), and Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception (1995). He has also authored Prehistory (2001) and Indian Economy, 1858 1914 (2006), and co-authored The Vedic Age (2003) and Mauryan India (2004), in the People s History of India series.Two sections of this monograph need to be singled out for their fine treatment. One is note 2.1 on the Indus script, and the other is the section on language change before 1500 BC. . . . The author is also to be commended for bringing up the thorny subject of the Indus civilization and the Rigveda . . . a fine overview of the subject.The Book Review
Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780235417
When Alexander the Great invaded the Indus Valley in the fourth century BCE, he was completely unaware that it had once been the center of a civilization that could have challenged ancient Egypt and neighboring Mesopotamia in size and sophistication. In this accessible introduction, Andrew Robinson tells the story—so far as we know it—of this enigmatic people, who lay forgotten for around 4,000 years. Going back to 2600 BCE, Robinson investigates a civilization that flourished over half a millennium, until 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and eventually vanished. Only in the 1920s, did British and Indian archaeologists in search of Alexander stumble upon the ruins of a civilization in what is now northwest India and eastern Pakistan. Robinson surveys a network of settlements—more than 1,000—that covered over 800,000 square kilometers. He examines the technically advanced features of some of the civilization’s ancient cities, such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, where archaeologists have found finely crafted gemstone jewelry, an exquisite part-pictographic writing system (still requiring decipherment), apparently Hindu symbolism, plumbing systems that would not be bettered until the Roman empire, and street planning worthy of our modern world. He also notes what is missing: any evidence of warfare, notwithstanding an adventurous maritime trade between the Indus cities and Mesopotamia via the Persian Gulf. A fascinating look at a tantalizingly “lost” civilization, this book is a testament to its artistic excellence, technological progress, economic vigor, and social tolerance, not to mention the Indus legacy to modern South Asia and the wider world.
Author : Mortimer Wheeler
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1968-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521069580
This book discusses climate and dating of the Indus Valley civilization and Sir Mortimer Wheeler summarizes other contributions to the study.
Author : John R. Hinnells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139461986
Ancient civilisations exercise an intense fascination for people the world over. This Handbook provides a vivid, scholarly, and eminently readable account of ancient cultures around the world, from China to India, the Middle East, Egypt, Europe, and the Americas. It examines the development of religious belief from the time of the Palaeolithic cave paintings to the Aztecs and Incas. Covering the whole of society not just the elite, the Handbook outlines the history of the different societies so that their religion and culture can be understood in context. Each chapter includes discussion of the broad field of relevant studies alerting the reader to wider debates on each subject. An international team of scholars convey their own deep enthusiasm for their subject and provide a unique study of both popular and 'official' religion in the ancient world.
Author : Shane Mountjoy
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Indus River Valley
ISBN : 9781438120034
Discusses the Indus River, which is the chief river of Pakistan.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509
Author : Kartikeya Shukla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1639743723
The Indus Valley Civilization (also known as the Indus Civilization, was a bronze age civilization in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. Together with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilizations of the near east and South Asia, and of the three, the most widespread, itssites spanning an area stretching from today's northeast Afghanistan, through much ofPakistan, and into western and northwestern India.It flourished in the basins of the Indus river which flows through the length of Pakistan, and along a system of perennial, mostly-fed, rivers that once coursed in the vicinity of the seasonal Ghaggar-Hakra river in northwest India and eastern Pakistan.
Author : Alice Albinia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393338607
Albinia follows the Indus River in Asia, one of the largest rivers in the world, through 2,000 miles of geography and back to a time 5,000 years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. Illustrations.
Author : Jane R. McIntosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576079089
This work is a revealing study of the enigmatic Indus civilization and how a rich repertoire of archaeological tools is being used to probe its puzzles. The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives takes readers back to a civilization as complex as its contemporaries in Mesopotamia and Egypt, one that covered a far larger region, yet lasted a much briefer time (less than a millennium) and left few visible traces. Researchers have tentatively reconstructed a model of Indus life based on limited material remains and despite its virtually indecipherable written record. This volume describes what is known about the roots of Indus civilization in farming culture, as well as its far-flung trading network, sophisticated crafts and architecture, and surprisingly war-free way of life. Readers will get a glimpse of both a remarkable piece of the past and the extraordinary methods that have brought it back to life.
Author : Guy D. Middleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107151499
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
Author : Michael Korvink
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780615182391
Since the discovery of the Indus Civilization, the meaning of the enigmatic Indus script remains hidden in its four hundred characters. While many would-be-decipherers have attempted to unravel its meaning with the aid of a presumed underlying language, none of these attempts has proven successful. In response, the approach taken in this work does not preclude an underlying language, but offers an alternate approach where the positional patterns of the Indus signs are investigated in an attempt to segment the character strings. Michael Korvink is a former instructor of International Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and now works in the private sector.