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020 _a9781107000261
041 _aEnglish
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_bWRI
100 _aWright, Rita P.,
245 _aThe ancient Indus : urbanism, economy, and society/
_cRita P Wright.
250 _a1st South Asia ed.
260 _aCambridge ; New York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2017.
300 _axix, 396 p. :
_bill., mapes ;
_c23 cm .
505 _t1. A long forgotten civilization;ation: decline, transition and transformation.
_t2. Geographical and environmental settings;
_t3. From foraging to farming and pastoralism;
_t4. An expanded world of peer polities;
_t5. Urbanism and states: cities, regions and edge zones;
_t6. Agrarian and craft producing economies - intensification and specialization;
_t7. Agrarian and craft producing economies - diversification, organization of production, and exchange;
_t8. The lure of distant lands;
_t9. Landscapes of order and difference - the cultural construction of space, place and material access;
_t10. Models for indus rleligious ideologies
_t11. The decline and transformation and the comparative study of early states
520 _aIn 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.
650 _aCivilització hindú
942 _2ddc
_cBOOKS