Plants and Harappan subsistence: an example of stability and change from Rojdi
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Beteilige Person: Weber, Steven A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Boulder u.a. Westview Press 1991
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Abstract:Understanding diversity and unity in the Harappan Cultural Tradition has been a major task of archeology in South Asia. This book contributes to this project through the examination of the plant portion of Harappan subsistence, about which comparatively little is known. The book describes the paleoethnobotanical project at Rojdi, a Sorath-Harappan site in Gujarat. Rojdi was inhabited during the Mature and Late Harappan Phases and its material culture contains Harappan characteristics and regional variants. A reconstruction on Rojdi subsistence is presented based on excavation, and the identification of plant remains. The findings from Rojdi are then compared with the archeobotanical record for all other South Asian sites of the Harappan period. The results bear out the perception that common elements of Harappan subsistence--the early establishment of a sophisticated cultivation strategy and diversification and intensification of subsistence strategies over time--co-existed with distinctive regional variation in the types of plants used and the expression of these general trends. The paleoethnobotanical project at Rojdi is among the few in South Asia to have used advanced techniques of ecofact recovery and analysis. The book concludes with a set of new hypotheses about Harappan culture-wide uniformities and regional diversity in subsistence strategies that may be tested by similar projects at other sites in the region.
Beschreibung:Teilw. zugl.: Univ. of Pennsylvania, Diss., 1989
Umfang:XII, 200 S. graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:0813313791