目录: 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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