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Connections and complexity : new approaches to the archaeology of South Asia
- Title
- Connections and complexity : new approaches to the archaeology of South Asia / edited by Shinu Anna Abraham, Praveena Gullapalli, Teresa P. Raczek, Uzma Z. Rizvi.
- Publication
- Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2013]
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- Description
- 430 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Indus civilization
- Regionalism > South Asia > History > To 1500
- Social archaeology > South Asia
- Material culture > India > History > To 1500
- Material culture > South Asia > History > To 1500
- Possehl, Gregory L > Influence
- South Asia > Antiquities
- Iron age > India
- India > Antiquities
- Landscape archaeology > South Asia
- Note
- Outgrowth of a symposium at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, organized on the occasion of the retirement of Gregory L. Possehl. Cited from preface.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Connections and complexity : new approaches to the archaeology of South Asia / Shinu Anna Abraham, Praveena Gullapalli, Teresa P. Raczek, and Uzma Z. Rizvi -- To what extent were the prehistoric Sri Lankans isolated from the Indian mainland? : biotic and archaeological considerations / Kenneth A.R. Kennedy -- Commodities and things : the Kulli in context / Rita P. Wright -- New evidence for interaction between the Iranian Plateau and the Indus Valley : seals and sealings from Konar Sandal South / Holly Pittman -- The Sindh Archaeological Project : explorations in the lower Indus Basin and western Sindh / Louis Flam -- Iconography of the Indus unicorn : origins and legacy / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer -- Forest products in a wider world : early historic connections across southern india / Kathleen D. Morrison and Mark T. Lycett -- The substance and symbolism of long-distance exchange : textiles as desired trade goods in the Bronze Age Middle Asian Interaction Sphere / Monica L. Smith -- Weighty matters : evidence for unity and regional diversity from the Indus civilization weights / Heather M.-L. Miller -- Starch grain analysis and experiments provide insights into Harappan cooking practices / Arunima Kashyap and Steve Weber -- Red polished ware in Gujarat : surface collections from inland sites / Nancy Pinto-Orton -- Spiraling interconnectedness : a fresh look at double-spiral-headed pins in the Indian subcontinent / Heidi J. Miller -- In search of craft and society : the glass beads of early historic Tamil South India / Shinu Anna Abraham -- Lamination as production technique : patterns and possibilities / Praveena Gullapalli -- Bronze Age pastoralism and differentiated landscapes along the Inner Asian mountain corridor / Michael Frachetti -- The ghost of the state in deep antiquity : a closer look at the Harappan civilization from the viewpoint of Sanskrit literature / Piotr A. Eltsov -- Crafting communities and producing places : copper, settlement patterns, and social identity in the Ganeshwar Jodhpura cultural complex, Rajasthan, India / Uzma Z. Rizvi -- Technology and everyday crafts : identifying traces of shared histories in the archaeological record / Teresa P. Raczek -- Regional diversity in the Harappan world : the evidence of the seals / Marta Ameri -- Monumentality and the third millennium "towers" of the Oman Peninsula / Charlotte Marie Cable and Christopher P. Thornton -- Small scale interactions across the North Gujarat plain / Suzanne Harris.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-5507
- ISBN
- 9781598746860 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 1598746863 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 9781598746884 (institutional ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781611326826 (consumer ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012028631
- OCLC
- 794361895
- Title
- Connections and complexity : new approaches to the archaeology of South Asia / edited by Shinu Anna Abraham, Praveena Gullapalli, Teresa P. Raczek, Uzma Z. Rizvi.
- Publisher
- Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Abraham, Shinu, editor.Possehl, Gregory L., honouree.Container of (work): Kennedy, Kenneth A. R. To what extent were the prehistoric Sri Lankans isolated from the Indian mainland?Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (74th : 2009 : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-5507