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by Gregory L. Possehl


  BMAC (Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex); artifact sites for; materials from; Middle Asian Interaction Sphere and

  boats. See also bitumen

  Bolan River

  Borrow, Thomas

  boustrophedon

  Brahuis

  Braidwood, Robert

  bricks; architecture and; baked; manufacture of; mud; robbing; uses for 31; wedge-shaped

  bronze

  Bronze Age: Baluchistan and; beads and; ceramics and; civilization of; site chronology for; Turanian. See also Mohenjo-daro

  Brown, W. Norman

  Buddhists

  buffalo: cult; motifs

  buildings: for elite; materials for; as new idea; public; size of; types of. See also bricks; houses; platforms; specific sites

  burial(s): coffin; fractional; joint; sites; types of. See also cenotaphs; specific sites

  Burj Basket-marked Phase

  Burnes, Alexander

  burning, large-scale. See fires

  Burzahom site

  camels

  camps

  carnelian; beads; unworked

  Casal, J.-M.

  cats

  cattle. See also zebu

  cemeteries; ceramics at; excavation of; gender and; societies and. See also burials; graves; specific sites

  cenotaphs

  ceramics; Bronze Age and; at cemeteries; firing techniques for; stoneware as; trade and; Transitional. See also jars; pottery; specific phases; specific sites; wares

  Chakravorty, B.

  Chanda, Rai Bahadur Ramaprasad

  Chandu-daro site; beads and; excavations at; figurines from; furnace at; occupations at; seals from

  Childe, V. Gordon

  Chinese civilization, ancient

  Cholistan site; history of; pottery at; sites in

  chowkidar

  chronology; for Bronze Age sites; of Early Harappan; of food production; for Indus Age; of Transitional Stage. See also radiocarbon dating; specific sites

  circumvallation

  cisterns

  citadels. See also mounds; specific sites

  cities; largest; planning of

  civic facilities

  civilizational rubric

  civilizations: of Bronze Age; comparisons between; geographic scale of; Sumerian, Akkadian, and Elamite; threshold of

  classes. See hierarchies

  climatic change

  cluster analysis

  coins

  College of Priests

  commerce. See also trade

  constructs, defining

  copper; artifacts; ingots; native; tablets; trade and

  Costantini, Lorenzo

  cotton

  councils, rule by

  crafts; craftspeople and; production of. See also specialists, career/craft; specific sites

  cremation

  crucibles

  Crumley, C.

  Cucarzi, M.

  cultivation. See also domestication; food production

  cultural geography

  culture(s); change in; comparisons between; continuity of; of Early Harappan; homogeneity /heterogeneity of; Minoan; movement; Mycenaean; patterns; roots of; traditions of

  culvert

  cuneiform

  Cunningham, Alexander

  Curzon, George

  customs

  Dabar Kot site

  Dales, G.; on Indus River; on trade

  Damb Sadaat site; BMAC and; pottery of; settlement data for. See also wares

  Dames, M. Longworth

  dams

  Dani, A. H.

  Dashli-Sapalli complex

  Dasht River

  data. See also specific sites

  death. See also cemeteries; graves; massacres; specific sites

  Deccan College

  deity. See also Proto-Siva

  Dera Ismail Khan

  Derajat, and Potwar Plateau

  Desalpur site

  deurbanization

  Deva, Krishna

  devil

  Dholavira site; ceramics from; chronology for; excavations at; plans of; script and; site size of

  dice

  Dikshit, Rao Bahadur Kashinath; Mohenjo-daro and; on town planning

  Dilmun site

  disease

  diversity; biological; cultural; ethnic; of people; phenotypic; religious; social

  dogs

  Domain(s); changes in; Kulli; Sindhi

  domestication: of animals/plants; nuclear zone of. See also cultivation; food production; specific sites

  doors

  drainage systems; description of; evidence of; sophistication of. See also Mohenjo-daro

  Dravidians; language and; sculpture and

  Drishadvati River

  Early Food-Producing Aspect

  earthquakes

  economy

  Egypt

  Ehrenreich, R.

  Elam

  Eliade, M.

  elites; buildings for; trade and

  Emeneau, Murray B.

  engineering

  epistemology

  ethnographic analogy

  etymological dictionary

  Evans, Arthur

  excavations: by American-Pakistani team; methods of; training. See specific sites

  exchange systems

  exports, invisible

  faience

  Fairservis, W. A.: on ethnicity; on seals

  famine

  farming; communities; dry; hunter-gatherers v.

  field schools

  figurines; animal; callipygian; clay; ethnicity and; female/male; goddess; horned; human; ithyphallic; puppet. See also specific countries; specific sites

  fire(s); altars. See also hearths

  fish, and fishing

  Flam, L.

  Fleet, J. F.

  floods

  floors, types of

  food

  food production; chronology of; documentation of; harvest and; health and; revolution of. See also Early Food-Producing Aspect; tools

  Fort Derawar

  fortification: evidence of; reasons for

  Franke-Vogt, U.

  Fullol Hoard. See Sai Hazara site

  funerals. See also cemeteries; human remains; specific sites

  furnace

  furniture

  Gadd, C. J.

  Gandhara

  Ganga-Yamuna Doab

  Ganweriwala site

  “Gazetteer of Settlements of the Indus Age,”

  Gedrosia

  gender. See also figurines

  geographical expansion

  Ghaggar-Hakra. See Sarasvati River

  Ghaggar River

  Ghosh, A.

  gifts

  glass. See also faience

  goats

  goddess: fertility; figurines

  godown

  gods. See also deity; figurines; goddess; Mahisha; Proto-Siva

  gold; artifacts; vessels

  Gonur Depe site

  government, centralized

  graffiti

  granaries. See also specific sites; warehouses

  graves

  Great Bath; chronology for; description of; importance of; plans of, platforms at; purpose of

  Great Bath, Mound of; Blocks 6 and 10 excavations of; L Area; Pillared Hall at; purpose of; stupa and. See also Buddhists; College of Priests; warehouse

  Grigson, C.

  growth

  Gudar-i Shah site

  Gufkral site

  Guha, B. S.

  Gujarat

  Gumla site. See also Dera Ismail Khan

  Gupta, S. P.

  Gurnikalan One site

  Hajji Firuz site

  Hakra River

  Hakra Wares Phase; regionalism and; river flow and; sites of

  hammam (sauna)

  Harappa site; BMAC and; cemeteries at; citadels at; description of; excavations of; finds at; granaries at; human remains from; Mohenjo-daro site v.; mounds at; occupation at; plan o
f; sculpture from; seals from; as urban center

  Harappan, Early: chronology of; cultures of; graph of settlement size; Kot Diji and; sites of; transition to Mature Harappan

  Harappan, Mature; Early Harappan transition to; as Indus Civilization; Kot Dijian assemblage and; Mesopotamian sequence and; renewal and; settlement data and; sites; water and. See also BMAC (Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex); Period II; Shortughai site

  Harappan(s): Civilization; Posturban; script; Sindhi and Punjabi. See also Sorath Harappans

  harbors

  Hargreaves, H.

  Harvey, J.

  Haryana

  Hasanpur Two site

  health. See also disease

  hearths

  Heesterman, J. C.

  Helmand Traditions

  Hemphill, B. E.

  herders

  Herodotus

  heterarchies

  Heyerdahl, Thor

  Hiebert, F. T.

  hierarchies

  Hiltebeitel, A.

  Himalayas

  Hinduism

  Hittite

  Holocene; diversity of people and; food production and; hunter-gatherers; weather during; wheat and

  Horse Cave

  houses; illustration of; types of. See also specific sites

  Hrozny, Bedrich

  Hulas

  human remains. See also specific sites

  humor

  Hunter, G. R.

  hunter-gatherers

  hypotheses, proposing

  iconography; ideological; themes of

  ideology; aspects of Indus; of Middle Asian Interaction Sphere; transformation and; urbanization as; water and. See also wasserluxus; zoolatry

  Illustrated London News

  India

  Indian Desert, Great

  Indo-Sumerian Civilization. See also Indus Civilization

  Indology

  Indra

  Indus Age

  Indus Civilization; aborginals and; artifacts from; later Indian tradition and; map; Mesopotamia and; myths of; Post-urban. See also BMAC (Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex); ideology; Harappan, Mature

  Indus Region, Greater

  Indus River; flooding of

  Indus Valley

  inhumations. See burials

  Interactive Trade and Barter Aspect

  Intercultural style; motifs; sculpture

  invasions. See also Aryans

  Iran: artifacts from; trade with

  Iranian Plateau

  iron

  Iron Age

  irrigation

  ivory

  Jalilpur

  Jansen, Michael: on architecture; research by

  Jarmo

  Jarrige, Catherine

  Jarrige, Jean-Francois

  jars

  Jebri Damb One site

  Jericho

  jewelry

  Jhukar site

  Jordan Valley

  Joshi, J. P.

  Kachi Plain. See also Mehrgarh site

  Kala Vangu. See Kalibangan

  Kalako—deray site

  Kalat

  Kalibangan site; abandonment of; excavations at; findings from; human remains from

  Kashmir

  Kathiawar

  Kechi Beg Phase; ceramics of; sites of

  Kennedy, K. A. R.: on populations of Subcontinent; studies by

  Kenoyer, J. M.

  Khafaje site

  Khan, F. A.

  Khurab site

  Kili Ghul Mohammad Phase: aceramic status of; settlement data for

  kilns; evidence of; location of; up-draft. See also bricks

  kingship

  Kish site

  kitchens

  knives

  Knossos

  Kohl, Philip

  Kokcha River

  Koldihwa

  Kopet Dagh

  Kosh Tapa. See Sai Hazara site

  Kot Diji: ethnic diversity and; findings from; Late; occupation and Period II at Gumla; as phase of Early Harappan; river flow and; settlement data for; site of

  Kuki Damb site

  Kulli; Domain; excavations/findings

  Kullis, v. Sindhis

  Kunal site

  Kutch

  labor forces. See also menials

  Lagash site

  lakes

  Lakhmirwala site

  Lal, B. B.

  Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C.

  Langhnaj site

  language: BMAC and; of Indus people; Sino-Tibetan. See also Brahuis; cuneiform; Dravidians; pictographs; Sanskrit

  lapidary industry

  leather working

  Levy, J.

  Lichtenstein, Diane

  limestone

  Linear Elamite. See Proto-Elamite

  Lohri site

  Lohumjo-daro site

  lost wax process

  Loteshwar site

  Lothal site; excavations of; figurines from; human remains from; trade and

  Lukacs, J.

  Mackay, Ernest John Henry; on architecture; on bead making; excavations by; on pottery; on privies; on sculpture; on stamp seals

  Magan site

  Mahadevan, I.

  Mahayogi. See also Proto-Siva

  Mahisha

  Majumdar, N. G.

  Makran, survey in

  manufacturing

  Margiana. See also BMAC (Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex)

  maritime activities; evidence of; Indus; during Middle Asian Interaction Sphere; sophistication of. See also Dilmun site, Magan site, Meluhha site; Mesopotamia; Middle Asian Interaction Sphere; technology; trade

  Marshall, John; on architecture; ASI and; Indo-Sumerian Civilization and; on language; at Mohenjodaro and Harappa; religion and; on sculpture

  masks

  massacres

  Masson, Charles

  McAlpin, D.

  McEvilley, T.

  Meadow, Richard

  Mehi site

  Mehrgarh site; animal/plant domestication and; dwellings at; excavations at; findings from; paleobotany of; Period II/III; plan of; Togau Phase at

  Meluhha site

  menials. See also chowkidar

  Mesolithic Aspect, sites of

  Mesopotamia; archaeology of; seals in; texts on Magan, Dilmun, and Meluhha; themes and iconography; trade and; writing in. See also Middle Asian Interaction Sphere; pictographs

  metallurgy

  metal(s); artifacts

  microliths

  Middle Asian Interaction Sphere. See also BMAC (Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex); Dilmun site; Intercultural style; Magan site; Meluhha site

  Miller, H.

  mirrors

  Mitathal site

  Mockler,E.

  models

  Mohenjo-daro; abandonment of; architecture at; Assembly Hall at; Block 11, DKG Area; Block 8A, DK-G Area; BMAC and; Buddhists and; chronology for; DK Areas, drainage system at; excavations of; financial problems at; findings from; as founder’s city; granaries at; v. Harappa site; houses at; HR Area; human remains from; Indus River and; maritime trade and; people of; plans of; religion and; sculpture from; seals from; structures from; VS Area; wells at. See also College of Priests; Great Bath; houses; sculpture; warehouses

  Mohenjo-daro: City of Wells and Drains, Water Splendor 4000 Years Ago (Jansen)

  Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization (Marshall)

  monsoons

  Moti Pipli site

  motifs: animal; buffalo; centaur; human/tree; Intercultural style; man/animal; plants/animals as religious; pottery; proto-Elamite

  mounds; as citadels; double; layout of; railway and brick. See also Great Bath, Mound of; specific sites

  Mughal, M. R.

  Mundigak

  museums: Baghdad; British; of Fine Arts in Boston; site

  myths

  Nagoor site

  Nagwada site

  nais

  Nal site. See also Amri-Nal Phase

  Namazga VI,
Early

  Natufians

  natural resources

  Nausharo site: abandonment of; figurines from; ID pottery

  Nawanbans site

  Neolithic; Northern; sites

  Niai Buthi site

  nihilism

  Nindowari site

  Nippur site

  nomads

  Northwest Frontier

  oasis

  observations, historical and ethnographic

  O’onnor, T. A.

  ornaments

  ovens

  Padri site

  Pakistan; animal domestication in; artifacts from; Early Iron Age in

  Pakistan Department of Archaeology

  palaces

  paleobotanical remains

  paleochannels

  Pande, B. M.

  paradigms

  Parpola, A.

  pastoralism; agriculture and; evidence of; migration of

  Pathans

  peoples; age/sex of; Indus. See also specific countries; typology

  period(s): I and II aceramic; Akkadian; architecture and; Early Harappan; of Indus Age; Kushan; Vedic. See also Harappan, Early; Harappan, Mature; Transitional Stage

  Persian Gulf

  Peshawar, University of

  pestles

  Petrie, Flinders

  phase(s); Amri-Nal; Burj Basket-marked; Damb Sadaat site and; of Early Harappan; Painted Gray Ware; Posturban; Togau. See also Hakra Wares Phase; Kechi Beg Phase; Sothi-Siswal Phase

  Philibangan. See Kalibangan

  pictographs

  Piggot, Stuart; on Indus peoples; subregions and; on technology; on town planning. See also paradigms

  plants; and animals in art; domestication of

  platforms: bathing; with temple; use of

  political organization

  pollen cores

  population: distribution of; pathologies of; stability of

  Possehl, G. L.

  potter’s wheel

  pottery; cemeteries and; decoration of; Kulli; Northern Neolithic; painted; trade and; Transition Stage; types of. See also ceramics; graffiti; motifs; specific sites; wares

  Potwar Plateau

  Prehistoric India (Piggot)

  pre-Mauryan epoch

  Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)

  Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB)

  priest-king(s): artifacts of; at Mohenjo-daro; rule by; statue; of Sumer

  principal components analysis

  privies

  Priyanka, B.

  problem orientation

  Proto-Siva: as religious symbol; seals

  Punjab(s): movement from Baluchistan to; Pakistani and Indian; people of

  Puskas, I.

  pyrotechnology

  Quetta Valley

  race. See also Aryans; Brahuis; Dravidians; Pathans; Punjabs; Sindhis

  radiocarbon dating: chronology and; problems with. See also specific sites

  Raikes, R.

  railway

 

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