The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing
Author: Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9788120404915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book Demonstrates That The Harappan Script Is Well On Its Way To Decipherment.
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The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing
Author: Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-07-17
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9004676759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA description of a methodology by which to decipher the writing of the Harappan civilization. The methodology is then applied and the results set forth in detail. There, results coupled with the author's extensive archaeological knowledge of the Indus Civilization creates a picture of ancient South Asian life much of which in content is unique.
Indus Age
Author: Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 1244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Part Four is a culture history of the peoples of the Indus Age from the beginnings of food production and domestication of plants and animals to the threshold of civilization in the region."--BOOK JACKET.
Understanding Collapse
Author: Guy D. Middleton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-26
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 110715149X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
Deciphering the Indus Script
Author: Asko Parpola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-10-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521795661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500-1900 BC in and around modern Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical records of South Asia were composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations. Professor Parpola is the chief editor of the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. His ideas about the script, the linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to the Dravidian family.
Excavations at the Harappan Site of Allahdino
Author: Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization
Author: Jonathan M. Kenoyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization presents a refreshingly new perspective on the earliest cities of Pakistan and western India (2600-1900 BC). Through a careful examination of the most recent archaeological discoveries from excavations in both Pakistan and India, the author provides a stimulating discussion on the nature of the early cities and their inhabitants. This detailed study of the Indus architecture and civic organization also takes into account the distinctive crafts and technological developments that accompanied the emergence of urbanism. Indus trade and economy as well as political and religious organizations are illuminated through comparisons with other contemporaneous civilizations in Mesopotamia and Central Asia and through ethnoarchaeological studies in later cultures of South Asia.
Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World
Author: Marta Ameri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 1108173519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity, gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient South Asia and the Aegean during the 4th-2nd Millennia BCE.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1090
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
The Indus Civilization
Author: Mortimer Wheeler
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1968-09-02
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521069588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses climate and dating of the Indus Valley civilization and Sir Mortimer Wheeler summarizes other contributions to the study.
