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Author: Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe. International Conference Publisher: ISBN: 9781881094036 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 516
Book Description
Presents 57 papers from the tenth International Conference of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe, Musee National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet, Paris, France, 3-7 July 1989. The text comprises 36 papers on archaeology (early lithic cultures; Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa; settlements and objects of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age cultures; pottery, environmental evidence) and 21 papers on art history (sculpture; paintings; terracottas; coins from the 1st to the 17th centuries AD).
Author: Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe. International Conference Publisher: ISBN: 9781881094036 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 516
Book Description
Presents 57 papers from the tenth International Conference of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe, Musee National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet, Paris, France, 3-7 July 1989. The text comprises 36 papers on archaeology (early lithic cultures; Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa; settlements and objects of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age cultures; pottery, environmental evidence) and 21 papers on art history (sculpture; paintings; terracottas; coins from the 1st to the 17th centuries AD).
Author: Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe. International Conference Publisher: ISBN: Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric Languages : en Pages : 528
Author: Robin Coningham Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316418987 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 557
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This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE), when domestication began, to the spread of Buddhism accompanying the Mauryan Emperor Asoka's reign (third century BCE). The authors examine the growth and character of the Indus civilisation, with its town planning, sophisticated drainage systems, vast cities and international trade. They also consider the strong cultural links between the Indus civilisation and the second, later period of South Asian urbanism which began in the first millennium BCE and developed through the early first millennium CE. In addition to examining the evidence for emerging urban complexity, this book gives equal weight to interactions between rural and urban communities across South Asia and considers the critical roles played by rural areas in social and economic development. The authors explore how narratives of continuity and transformation have been formulated in analyses of South Asia's Prehistoric and Early Historic archaeological record.
Author: Gwen Robbins Schug Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119055474 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 512
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A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global team of experts. The most comprehensive and detailed scholarly treatment of South Asian archaeology and biological anthropology, providing ground-breaking new ideas and future challenges Provides an in-depth and broad view of the current state of knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal A comprehensive treatment of research in a crucial region for human evolution and biocultural adaptation A global team of scholars together present a varied set of perspectives on South Asian pre- and proto-history
Author: Swadhin Sen Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000780759 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 303
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This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval periods in South Asia. Despite the incorporation and use of archaeological data to corroborate historical narratives, the theories and methods of archaeology are largely ignored in and excluded from the dominating, institutionalized, and hegemonic disciplinary discourses. The volume offers contesting insights, polemical narratives, and new data from archaeological contexts to initiate a debate on many foundational premises of archaeological and historical narratives. It focuses on the much-neglected region of the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin as a spatial frame to do this and studies themes such as spatial and temporal scales of concepts and methods, multi-scaler factors and processes of continuity and changes, the settlement archaeology of the alluvial landscape, changing patterns of agrarian transformation, and material cultures, including coins, inscriptions, pottery, and sculptures, in their contexts in sub-regional, regional, and supra-regional intersections. Dedicated to historian Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, this volume presents a crucial and unprecedented intervention in the study of the early medieval and the medieval periods. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of archaeology, ancient history, medieval history, water history, earth sciences, palaeoecology, historical ecology, epigraphy, art history, material culture studies, Indian history, and South Asian studies in general.
Author: Asko Parpola Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190226935 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 385
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Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area of nearly a million square kilometers, the Indus civilization was more extensive than the contemporaneous urban cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Yet, after almost a century of excavation and research the Indus civilization remains little understood. How might we decipher the Indus inscriptions? What language did the Indus people speak? What deities did they worship? Asko Parpola has spent fifty years researching the roots of Hinduism to answer these fundamental questions, which have been debated with increasing animosity since the rise of Hindu nationalist politics in the 1980s. In this pioneering book, he traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His new ideas on the formation of the Vedic literature and rites and the great Hindu epics hinge on the profound impact that the invention of the horse-drawn chariot had on Indo-Aryan religion. Parpola's comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available textual, linguistic and archaeological evidence, including West Asian sources and the Indus script. The results affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present day and, among many other things, shed new light on the prehistory of the key Hindu goddess Durga and her Tantric cult.
Author: Dennys Frenez Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1784919187 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 680
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This volume, a compilation of original papers written to celebrate the outstanding contributions of Jonathan Mark Kenoyer to the archaeology of South Asia over the past forty years, highlights recent developments in the archaeological research of ancient South Asia, with specific reference to the Indus Civilization.
Author: Birgit Kellner Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110413086 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 270
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For over 2500 years, Buddhism was implicated in processes of cultural interaction that in turn shaped Buddhist doctrines, practices and institutions. While the cultural plurality of Buddhism has often been remarked upon, the transcultural processes that constitute this plurality, and their long-term effects, have scarcely been studied as a topic in their own right. The contributions to this volume present detailed case studies ranging across different time periods, regions and disciplines, and they address methodological challenges as well as theoretical problems. In addition to casting a spotlight on topics as diverse as the role of trade contacts in the early spread of Buddhism, the hybrid nature of religious practices in Japan or Indo-Tibetan relations in Tibetan polemical literature, the individual papers jointly raise the question as to whether there might be something distinct about how Buddhism steers and influences forms of cultural exchange, and is in turn shaped by modalities of cultural interaction throughout Asian, as well as global, history. The volume is intended to demonstrate the need for investigating transcultural dynamics more closely in the study of Buddhism, and to suggest new avenues for Buddhist Studies.
Author: Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe. International Conference
Author: Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe. International Conference
Author: Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe. International Conference
Author: Robin Coningham
Author: George Erdosy
Author: Gwen Robbins Schug
Author: Swadhin Sen
Author: Asko Parpola
Author: Ian Shaw
Author: Dennys Frenez
Author: Birgit Kellner