عنوان

Connections and complexity :

(Number (ISBN

1598746863

(Number (ISBN

9781598746860

Erroneous ISBN

9781598746884

Erroneous ISBN

9781611326826

Number

b398604

Title Proper

Connections and complexity :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

new approaches to the archaeology of South Asia /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Shinu Anna Abraham, Praveena Gullapalli, Teresa P. Raczek, Uzma Z. Rizvi.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

430 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of 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.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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Possehl, Gregory L.-- Influence.

Indus civilization.

Iron age-- India.

Landscape archaeology-- South Asia.

Material culture-- India-- History-- To 1500.

Material culture-- South Asia-- History-- To 1500.

Regionalism-- South Asia-- History-- To 1500.

Social archaeology-- South Asia.

India, Antiquities.

South Asia, Antiquities.

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Abraham, Shinu.

Society for American Archaeology., Meeting(74th :2009 :, Atlanta, Ga.)

Date of Transaction

20130517100124.0

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[Book]

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