The Indus Civilization
This Supplemental Volume to the Cambridge History of India is an outdated (1968) but rigorously argued synthesis by a pioneering British archaeologist. With some nicely done plans and cross-sections.
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India: An Archaeological History: Palaeolithic Beginnings to Early Historic Foundations
The increased pace in archaeological research in recent decades has yielded a construction of the history of prehistoric and early historic India primarily in terms of archaeology. This book charts the flow of India's grassroots archaeological history.
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.
God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia
A really important book bringing together the data from many different scientific disciplines to spell out what (little) we know of humanoid history in the sub-continent. In many ways, a life's work by an important scientist who made important contributions to the study of Indus people and their forerunners.
The Indus: Lost Civilizations
There are almost no concise, up-to-date accounts of the ancient Indus civilization, locating the latest facts and opinions within a larger intellectual context. Has the Indus script been deciphered? What can we say about the relationship of ancient Indus traditions and modern Hinduism? How did Indus society compare to contemporary Bronze Age Egypt and Mesopotamia? Why do so many questions remain open and so contentious?
Connections and Complexity: New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia
This volume, dedicated to the archaeologist Dr. Gregory Possehl, has been edited by his former students, and presents a series of case studies that develop and investigate the broad range of ideas and research that "Dr. P" fostered through his research and teaching.
Art of Human Figures from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indus
An amazing catalogue of female figurines from Neolithic times across the world, in places connected and witness to constantly shifting populations. Beautifully illustrated, with focus on Mehrgarh and the Indus Valley pieces which are seen in connection to a long, sophisticated tradition.
Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization
The essential excavations report at the key Indus city of Mohenjo-daro. Three volumes, fold out maps, plans, diagrams scale drawings of artifacts with 164 plates.
The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology: The Archaeological Foundations of Ancient India
This authoritative work, the first comprehensive study of its kind, traces the evolving archaeological scenario of the Indian subcontinent, area by area, phase by phase, from prehistory to the thirteenth century AD.
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.