Robin Coningham (University of Durham), Ruth Young (University of Leicester)

The Archaeology of South Asia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE), when domestication began and permanent settlements were established across the subcontinent, to the spread of Buddhism which accompanied the reign of the Mauryan Emperor Asoka in the third century BCE.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge World Archaeology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1022g
• ISBN-13: 9780521609722
• ISBN-10: 0521609720
• Artikelnr.: 67437056

Autorenporträt

Robin Coningham

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Context: 1. Introduction and definitions; 2. Environment and culture: South Asia's environmental, linguistic and religious patterns; 3. Histories of South Asian archaeology; Part II. The Indus Valley Tradition c.6500
1900 BCE: 4. Food producers: multiple Neolithics (c.6500
2000 BCE); 5. Regionalisation and differentiated communities (c.5000
2600 BCE); 6. An era of integration: the Indus civilisation (c.2600
1900 BCE); 7. Localisation: transformations of a system (c.1900
1200 BCE); Part III. The Early Historic Tradition (c.1900
200 BCE): 8. South Asia: transitions and continuities (c.1900
1200 BCE); 9. The re-emergence of regional differentiation (c.1200
600 BCE); 10. Reintegration: towards an early historic world (c.600
250 BCE); 11. The Mauryans and the Asokan ideal (c.321
185 BCE); Part IV. Conclusions: 12. Conclusions and challenges.