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ISBN: 9694020581
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Price: $1.11 / Rs100.00
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PARTITION AND ANGLO-PAKISTAN RELATIONS, 1947-51
by MASSARRAT SOHAIL
Publication Date: 1991
Extent: 423 pages
The Book:
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 of Rojdi subsistence is presented based on excavation, and the identification of plant remains. The findings from Rojdi are then compared to 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 Author:
Dr. Steven A. Weber is Research Associate at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania and Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at the same institution. He has excavated in both the southwest United States and India and is an experienced ethnobiologist and paleoethnobotanist in both parts of the world. He has been President of the Society of Ethnobiology and currently serves on its Board of Trustees. His other publications include 'Havasupai Habitat'.
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