The Indus Valley (Excavating the Past)
A delightful well-illustrated children's primer on the ancient Indus. Follow in the footsteps of the archaeologists who unearthed the secrets of the Indus Valley.
128 new and classic books on the ancient Indus civilization, from exhibition catalogues to excavation reports, from the scientific to imaginative fiction for kids and adults.
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, Vol. 2
Volume 2 of the most comprehensive listing of ancient Indus seals covers collections in Pakistan, including many seals found in Harappa and Mohenjo-daro before Independence.
Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times
The rise and origins of urbanization in India, Pakistan and Nepal is discussed in this work by scholars in a wide range of disciplines with three important essays that deal with Indus urbanization.
Lothal: A Harappan Port Town
A key two volume text by a noted Indian archaeologist detailing the excavations at the Harappan port town of Lothal in Gujarat. Well-illustrated with maps, diagrams and hundreds of photographs.
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, Vol. 1
Volume 1 of the most comprehensive listing of ancient Indus seals, covering those in Indian collections, many found in Mohenjo-daro and Harappa before Independence.
Studies in the Archaeology of India and Pakistan
These collected papers by leading international authorities on South Asian archaeology present material which may surprise the archaeological community and perhaps startle the educated laymen.
Studies in the Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology of South Asia
Important essays on the pre-Indus period and after, helping set the wider and still really little known context for this civilization's rise.
The External Trade of the Indus Civilization
A detailed examination of Indus artifacts, real or not, found outside the subcontinent, including in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, the Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and Crete.
Harappan Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective
The second, revised edition of this magisterial work by a leading Indus scholar and synthesizer of the many theories about ancient Indus times. Numerous leading scholars are represented in the many essays.
Still Digging
The memoir of an important Indus archaeologist that recounts 45 years of archaeological work from Roman ruins in Britain to southern India.
Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond
An expanded version of Sir Mortimer Wheeler's 1961 essay bringing information about the Indus civilization to the general public. Well-illustrated with reconstructions of the "granaries" as Wheeler conceived them.
Indian Nights' Entertainment or Folktales from the Upper Indus
Originally published in 1892, a collection of very old folktales from the region collected by an Englishman in the 19th century.
Harappan Civilization and Rojdi
Renewed excavations at the Harappan site of Rojdi in Rajkot District of Saurashtra were begun in 1982-83 by a joint archaeological team from the Gujarat State Department of Archaeology and The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
Kulli: An Exploration of Ancient Civilization in Asia
An eminent Indus archaeologist looks at the Kulli culture, a highland culture in Baluchistan contemporaneous and adjacent to the ancient Indus civilization at its height. So little is known about this distinct culture whose hallmarks seem to have been absorbed into later Indus Civilization.
Indus Valley: entry from Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
This stunning source explores the nutritional and cultural impact of food, with articles written by anthropologists, chefs, food historians, nutritionists, agronomists, food stylists, and other food researchers.
Indus Age: The Beginnings
This volume tells the story of the modern discovery of the Harappan Civilization, starting in the early 19th century, when the city of Harappa was first visited by antiquarians.
Kalat Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, & the Punjab, 1826 to 1838
A brief account of the revolt in Balochistân, an episode merely of the great political drama enacted west of the Indus, as described by one of the first Europeans to write about Harappa.
The Indus Civilization
A briefer, more popular version of Mackay's more scholarly two-volume Further Excavations at Mohenjo-daro.
Chanhu-daro Excavations (1935-1936)
The detailed and highly informative excavation reports from the only American-sponsored pre-partition Indus excavations at this manufacturing site in Sindh. Available online.
Facets of Indian Civilization: Recent Perspectives [Essays in Honor of Prof. BB Lal 3 Volumes]
Hardcover: 1068 pages
Publisher: Aryan Books International (May 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8173050872
ISBN-13: 978-8173050879