Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009424448 |
| ISBN10: | 10094244411 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 398 pages |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Category:
The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 31 December 2024
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Short description:
This book offers new insights into the Indus civilisation through an archaeobotanical reconstruction of its environment.
Long description:
The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 320 - 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. Located at the cross-roads of Asia, in modern Pakistan and India, it encompassed ca. one million square kilometers, making it one the largest &&&160;and most ecologically, culturally, socially, and economically complex among contemporary civilisations. &&&160;In this study, Jennifer Bates offers new insights into the Indus civilisation through an archaeobotanical reconstruction of its environment. Exploring the relationship between people and plants, agricultural systems, and the foods that people consumed, she demonstrates how the choices made by the ancient inhabitants were intertwined with several aspects of society, as were their responses to social and climate changes. Bates' book synthesizes the available data on genetics, archaeobotany, and archaeology. It shows how the ancient Indus serves as a case study of a civilization&&&160;navigating&&&160;sustainability, resilience and collapse in the face of&&&160;changing circumstances by adapting its agricultural practices.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. The Paleoenvironmental context; 3. Laying the groundwork; 4. Southwest Asian crops and their significance; 5. Big millets; 6. Small Millets; 7. Rice; 8. Tropical pulses and the identification of local domestication processes; 9. Microfossils and the multi-proxy approach; 10. Beyond 'staples'; 11. Crop processing and social organization; 12. Cropping strategies and seasonality; 13. Irrigation and intensification; 14. Indus indentities and food; 15. The 'Late Harappan Revolution'; 16. The burnt remains.
