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The Indus Civilization 3rd Edition

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3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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In 1921 at Harappa, a small town in the Punjab, and in 1922 at Mohenjo-daro in Sind, evidence was discovered of an evolved urban culture nearly two thousand years older than any previously recognized in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. From the distribution of the sites first explored, the culture was named the Indus Valley civilization. This name it retains, although subsequent research has revealed elements of the civilization on the one hand westwards to the Makran coast and Saurashtra, and on the other hand eastwards into the valley of the Yamuna (Jumna). Thus amplified, the civilization is appreciably larger than its contemporaries in Iraq and Egypt. In this digital reprint of the 1968 third edition, Sir Mortimer Wheeler summarized other contributions to the study of the Indus civilization, and included discussions on climate and dating. The book includes well over 50 photographs of pottery, sculpture and sites.
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    0521095387
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521095389
  3. Edition
    3rd
  4. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    September 1, 1968
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.51 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    204 pages
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This book discusses climate and dating of the Indus Valley civilization and Sir Mortimer Wheeler summarizes other contributions to the study.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 3rd edition (September 1, 1968)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 204 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521095387
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521095389
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.51 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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Sidney Gavin Frost
5.0 out of 5 stars Thirty feet of silt
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2011
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This detailed work gives an excellent overview of a much neglected civilization, one that sprang in full bloom in about 2600BCE. However as this book points out there is thirty feet of unexplored silt under the lower levels of the city of mohanjo-daro.
An excellent book one that everyone interested in the roots of religon should diligently read.
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Prem L Sharma.
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2015
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A nice account of civilization.
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Jordan Bell
5.0 out of 5 stars A good short archaeological summary
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2017
"In the light of such evidence as can be garnered from all sources, and subject to queries mentioned above it may now be postulated that the nuclear cities of the Indus civilization were founded sometime before 2400 B.C. and that they endured in some shape to the eighteenth century B.C.; always with the reservation that these brackets cannot be expected to fit closely and mechanically to Indus towns and villages of all sizes and in all locations."

In the Conclusion, Wheeler writes, "In such sculptural art as the Indus has produced there is no real affinity with the sculpture of Sumer. No one would mistake a stone carving from Mohenjo-daro for one from Tell Asmar or Mari. The Indus terracottas are in a different world from those of Mesopotamia. The art of the Harappan seals has no close parallel in the whole history of glyptic. And the Indus language, in so far as its features may be dimly determined through the veil of its unread script, differed as its script differed from that of Sumer and owed no more to this than the basic idea, perhaps, of written record. The integrity of the Indus civilization stands unchallenged."

The books that are cited most often by Wheeler are the following, which are unfortunately all out of print but are available in large university libraries. (Piggott is out of print and was published by Penguin so will be easier to find a used copy.): John Marshall, "Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization" (1931), Madho Sarup Vats, "Excavations at Harappa" (1940), E. J. H. Mackay, "Further Excavations at Mohenjo-daro" (1938) and "Chanhu-daro Excavations 1935-36" (1943), and Stuart Piggott, "Prehistoric India" (1950).
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Christian
4.0 out of 5 stars Livre d occasion
Reviewed in France on April 3, 2023
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Vendeur rapide ,envoi parfait .
Le livre est une pièce de collection
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