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A Bibliography of the Indus Civilization

The Harappan civilization in Books and Articles

By K. Kris Hirst, About.com

Cork, Edward 2005 Peaceful Harappans? Reviewing the evidence for the absence of warfare in the Indus Civilisation of north-west India and Pakistan (c. 2500-1900 BC). Antiquity 79(304):411-423.

Dar, Rahman S. 2003 Nari: The first Early Indus Valley Site discovered between the Salt Range and the River Jhelum. Journal of Asian Civilization 26(2):1-65.

Fujiwara, Hiroshi. Research into the history of rice cultivation using plant opal analysis. In Pearsall, Deborah M. and Piperno, Dolores R. MASCA: Current Research in Phytolith Analysis: Applications in archaeology and paleoecology 10, 147-158. 93.

Jarrige, Jean-Francois and Richard H. Meadow 1980 The antecedents of civilization in the Indus Valley. Scientific American 243122-133.

Kenoyer, J. M. 1991 The Indus Valley tradition of Pakistan and Western India. Journal of World Prehistory 5(4):331-385.

Kenoyer, Jonathan M. 2001. Bead Technologies At Harappa, 3300-1900 BC: A comparative summary. In South Asian Archaeology 2001. C. Jarrige and V. Lefevre, eds. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations.

Kenoyer, Jonathan M. 2006 Cutlures and Societies of the Indus tradition. In Historical Roots in the Making of 'the Aryan'. R. Thapar, ed. New Delhi: National Book Trust.

Lal, R., D. C. Reicosky, and J. D. Hanson 2007 Evolution of the plow over 10,000 years and the rationale for no-till farming. Soil & Tillage Research 93:1-12. Free download.

Levitt, Stephan H. 2003 The dating of the Indian tradition. Anthropos 98(2):341-359.

Meadow, Richard H. and Jonathan M. Kenoyer 2005 Excavations At Harappa 2000-2001: New Insights On Chronology and City Organization. C. Jarrige and V. Lefebre, eds. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations.

Méry, Sophie, et al. 2007 (Indus civilisation, ca. 2500 BC). Journal of Archaeological Science 34:1098-1116.

Possehl, Gregory L. 1997 The transformation of the Indus civilization. Journal of World Prehistory 11(4):425-472.

Possehl, Gregory L. 2002. The Indus Civilization: A contemporary perspective.. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek California.

Ratnagar, Shereen 2001 The Bronze Age: Unique instance of a pre-industrial world system? Current Anthropology 42(3):351-379.

Reade, Julian 2001 Assyrian King-Lists, the Royal Tombs of Ur, and Indus Origins. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 60(1):1-29.

Reddy, Seetha N. 1997 If the threshing floor could talk: Integration of agriculture and pastoralism during the Late Harappan in Gujarat, India. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 16:162-187.

Sharma, D.P and Madhuri Sharma (eds.). 2006. Early Harappans and Indus-Sarasvati Civilization, Volume I. Kaveri Books, New Delhi.

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