The Oxford companion to Indian archaeology : the archaeological foundations of ancient India, Stone Age to AD 13th century
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- ISBN: 0195673425
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xvi, 570 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm - Publisher New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 526-555) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Ch. 1. The discoveries of Stone Age sites and tools, c. 1860-c.1950 -- Ch. 2. Hominid fossils, earliest stone tools, and India in the current scheme of human evolution -- Ch. 3. Palaeolithic sites, sequences, and materials -- Ch. 4. Palaeolithic India : a summation of historical knowledge -- Ch. 5. The Mesolithic evidence -- Ch. 6. Problem of the beginning of food production in India and the evidence from Mehrgarh -- Ch. 7. Beyond Mehrgarh : the growth of villages from Baluchistan to Western Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat -- Ch. 8. Origin and chronology of the Harappan or Indus civilization -- Ch. 9. Distribution and morphological features of mature Harappan settlements -- Ch. 10. Aspects of the Indus civilization -- Ch. 11. Late Harappan phase and the legacy of the Indus civilization -- Ch. 12. Beginning of rice agriculture in the Central Ganga Plain and other issues -- Ch. 13. Neolithic-Chalcolithic cultures outside the Harappan orbit -- Ch. 14. The beginning of iron -- Ch. 15. The foundations of early historic India -- Ch. 16. Beginning of early historic India : chronology, ancient geographical units, and geo-political orbits -- Ch. 17. Early historic cities -- Ch. 18. The material basis of life : settlements, technology, agriculture, and trade -- Ch. 19. Art and architecture -- Ch. 20. Inscriptions, coins, religions -- Ch. 21. Multiple and shifting centers of power, A.D. c.7th-c.13th centuries -- Ch. 22. Settlements, irrigation, technology, trade -- Ch. 23. Inscriptions and coins -- Ch. 24. Temples, monasteries, sculpture, and painting -- Ch. 25. Archaeology of India : a general perspective -- App. I. Archaeology of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadveep and Minicoy -- |
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The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology : The Archaeological Foundations of Ancient India
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The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology : The Archaeological Foundations of Ancient India
This authoritative work, the first comprehensive study of its kind, traces the evolving archaeological scenario of the Indian subcontinent, area by area, phase by phase, from prehistory to the thirteenth century AD. Using a wide variety of sources, distinguished scholar Dilip K. Chakrabarti provides an in-depth multi-layered archaeological chronicle of the subcontinent.
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