Indus Ethnobiology: New Perspectives from the FieldSteven A. Weber, William R. Belcher Indus Ethnobiology: New Perspectives From the Field is a unique and fascinating collection of interdisciplinary essays that study the Indus or Harappan Civilization of South Asia, one of the earliest urban civilizations. The essays in this volume utilize an ethnobiological approach to offer fresh insights into the sociocultural adaptations of the Indus people, as well as into urbanism and ecological and cultural change. Each article, written by a prominent scholar working in the region, studies animal and plant remains in order to explore issues such as environment, vegetation history, habitat exploitation, pastoralism, subsistence systems and agriculture. Incorporating biological, anthropological, and archeological theory, Indus Ethnobiology exemplifies what ethnobiology is and ought to be: a powerful source of ideas about the interrelationships between living organisms and human culture. |
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Vegetation History and Wood Exploitation in Pakistani | 21 |
Prehistoric Pastoralism in Northwestern South Asia | 65 |
Fish Exploitation of the Indus Valley Tradition | 95 |
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agricultural Allahdino Allchin analysis ancient archaeobotanical archaeological sites artifacts assemblages Balakot Baluchistan Bannu barley bones Cambridge carts catfish cattle ceramics cereals charcoal charred contexts crop processing cultivation cultural Delhi deposits Dholavira distribution domestic economy edited elements environment ethnoarchaeological evidence Excavations Faunal Remains Figure fish remains fragments Greater Indus Valley Gujarat Harappan civilization Harappan period Harappan phase herds identified India Indus civilization Indus Valley Tradition Jarrige Kachi Plain Kajale Kenoyer Kot Diji Late Harappan Madella Makran Meadow Mehrgarh millennium B.C. millet Miri Qalat models modern Mohenjo-daro Mound Nausharo Neolithic Pakistan pastoral patterns pectoral phytoliths plants Pomadasys hasta Populus euphratica Possehl Prehistoric Prosopis cineraria Punjab Research rice River Rojdi samples season seeds settlement Sheri Khan Tarakai Sindh South Asia South Asian Archaeology Southern Neolithic species Spines strategies subsistence systems suggests taxa third millennium tion traction activities traction exploitation traction pathologies University Press vegetation water buffalo wheat wild