TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright, Rita P.,
TI  - The ancient Indus : urbanism, economy, and society
SN  - 9781107000261
U1  - 934 22
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - Civilització hindú
N1  - 1. A long forgotten civilization;ation: decline, transition and transformation; 2. Geographical and environmental settings; 3. From foraging to farming and pastoralism;; 4. An expanded world of peer polities;; 5. Urbanism and states: cities, regions and edge zones;; 6. Agrarian and craft producing economies - intensification and specialization;; 7. Agrarian and craft producing economies - diversification, organization of production, and exchange;; 8. The lure of distant lands;; 9. Landscapes of order and difference - the cultural construction of space, place and material access;; 10. Models for indus rleligious ideologies; 11. The decline and transformation and the comparative study of early states
N2  - In this volume, Rita P. Wright uses both Mesopotamian texts and the results of archaeological excavations and surveys to draw a rich account of the Indus civilisation's well-planned cities, its sophisticated alterations to the landscape, and the complexities of its agrarian and craft-producing economy
ER  -