Volume 17 / Number 2
1975
Special Edition: India and Pakistan
On The Cover: Pottery motifs. The top is a typical Londo Ware design (c. 1st millennium CE). The second register of interlocking stick figures is a motif common on Jorwe Pottery (1400-1100 BCE) as found at Inamgaon. The third register of peacocks and a pipal tree bordered by intersecting circles is associated with the mature Harappan (2300-1700 BCE) as found at Mohenjo-daro. Pre-Harappan designs (2800-2300 BCE) from Kalibangan form the lowerst register.
Vol. 17 / No. 2
By: H.D. Sankalia, Z.D. Ansari and M.K. Dhavalikar
An Early Farmer’s Village in Central India
The first prehistoric farming communities excavated in central India were found at the sites of Nasik, Jorwe and Nevasa (Sankalia […]
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By: Ahman Hasad Dani
Origins of Bronze Age Cultures in the Indus Basin: A Geographic Perspective
PAST CONCEPTS We have been studying the problems of the Bronze Age Cultures in the Indus Basin for almost half […]
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Vol. 17 / No. 2
By: B.K. Thapar
Kalibangan: A Harappan Metropolis Beyond the Indus Valley
Kalibangan, literally black bangles, from the sight of the countless fragments of weather-stained terracotta bangles strewn over the surface of […]
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By: Gregory L. Possehl
The Chronology of Gabarbands and Palas of Western South Asia
By far the greater parts of Pakistan and western India are semi-arid climatic zones. Mean annual precipitation for virtually all […]
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