Garuda Prakashan, 2020. — 242 p. Who were the Harappans? How are they related to present-day Indians? Was there never an “Aryan Invasion”? The Sarasvati Civilization: A New Paradigm in Ancient Indian History brings together evidence from satellite imagery, geology, hydrodynamics, archaeology, epigraphy, textual hermeneutics, and DNA research to place together ancient Indian...
Edited by Jagat Pati Joshi and Asko Parpola with the assistance of Erja Lahdenpera and Virpi Hameen-Anttila. — Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1987. — xxxii + 392 p. — (Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian toimituksia. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Sarja - Ser. B., Nide - Tom 239; Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 86). — ISSN: 0066-2011; ISBN:...
Edited by Sayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Asko Parpola. — Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991. — xxxii + 448 p. — (Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian toimituksia. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Sarja - Ser. B., Nide - Tom 240; Memoirs of the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, Vol. 5). — ISSN: 0066-2011; ISBN: 951-41-0556-7. This is the second of...
Penguin Books India, 2010. — 368 p. The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as Sarasvati in the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, this river was rediscovered in the early nineteenth...
Karachi: Indus Publications, 1988. — 80 p. — (Series: Sir William Meyer Lectures). The lectures on the prehistoric civilization of the Indus Valley were delivered at the University of Madras in 1935 being the third of the series of Sir William Meyer lectures. Discovery, Scope and Extent of the Indus Valley Civilization. Building, Architecture and Town Planning. The Life and...
Anthropology Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 45, Part 2. — New York, 1956. — p. 169-402, illus., map. The present report is the first of a projected series presenting the results of an integrated field program to determine, in so far as possible, the geographic range and stratigraphy of the prehistoric cultures of western Pakistan and southern Afghanistan....
Second Edition. — Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 2001. — 359 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-8356-0720-9. For decades, schoolbooks have taught that Sumer was the cradle of civilization. Conventional scholarship has also held that Aryan civilization came to India by way of invasions from the north. But in this ground-breaking book, three renowned scholars show that there was no "Aryan invasion,"...
Passage Press, 1991. — 396 pp. — (Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization). — ISBN: 1-878423-08-8. There is much ground for believing that ancient India was more central to the origins of civilization than is presently considered, that it may be the source of civilization as we know it. This has been the main belief of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and many Western mystical...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018. — 680 p. Walking with the Unicorn – Jonathan Mark Kenoyer Felicitation Volume is an important contribution highlighting recent developments in the archaeological research of ancient South Asia, with specific reference to the Indus Civilization. As suggested by the title, it is a compilation of original papers written to celebrate the outstanding...
Tulika Books, 2002. — 111 pp. — (A People's History of India, 2). — ISBN: 81-85229-66-X. The Indus Civilization by Irfan Habib is the second monograph in the People's History of India series. It continues the story from the point reached in the earlier monograph, Prehistory . The dominant theme here is provided by the Indus civilization. In addition, other contemporary and...
Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, 1962. — 278 p. — (India. Anthropological Survey. Memoir; no. 9). The Anthropological Survey of India has great pleasure in submitting the first report on the Harappan skeletal remains. Foreword (Nirmal Kumar Bose). The archaeological background (A. Ghosh). Demographic notes on Harappa skeletons (J. M. Datta). Human remains from Harappa...
E-book. — 189 p. Джейя Кумар Р. Новый взгляд на цивилизацию долины Инда (на англ. яз.) Dark Ages. General Theories and Concepts. Genetic Archaeology. Origin of Indo-Europeans. Minoan Civilization. Megalithic Civilization. Sumerian Civilization. Indus Valley Civilization. Interpretations of Middle Eastern Seals. Astronomy and Calendar. Navagrahas. Interpretation of Indus...
Carachi: Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan, 1967. — 35 p. Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 km (15 mi) west of Sahiwal. The site of the ancient city contains the ruins of a Bronze Age fortified city, which was part of the Indus Valley Civilisation centred in Sindh and the Punjab, and then the Cemetery H...
Carachi: Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan, 1967. — 20 p. Mohenjo-daro is an archaeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Built around 2500 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation, and one of the world's earliest major cities, contemporaneous with the civilizations of ancient Egypt,...
Delhi: Permanent Black, 2000. — 410 p. — ISBN: 81-7530-0345. Indus Cities and the Aryans: Historical Conquerors, Mythical Marauders or Vedic Harappans? First Formulations: Chanda vs. Chanda. The Indus Valley in the Vedic Period (Ramaprasad Chanda). The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins (V. Gordon Childe). Survival of the Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus Valley...
London: Arthur Probsthain, 1931. — xxvii + 364 p. Being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-Daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927. In three volumes, with plan and map in colours, and 164 plates in collotype. Volume I: Text. Chapters I-XIX and Plates I-XIV. Preface (Sir John Marshall). The Country, Climate, and Rivers...
London: Arthur Probsthain, 1931. — xiv + 352 p. Being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-Daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927. In three volumes, with plan and map in colours, and 164 plates in collotype. Volume II : Text. Chapters XX—XXXII. Appendices and Index Mechanical Nature of the Early Indus Writing (Sidney...
London: Arthur Probsthain, 1931. — 305 p. Being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-Daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927. In three volumes, with plan and map in colours, and 164 plates in collotype. Volume III : Plates XV-CLXIV.
ABC-Clio, 2007. — 441 pp. — (Understanding Ancient Civilizations Series). — ISBN: 978-1-57607-908-9. The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives takes readers back to a civilization as complex as its contemporaries in Mesopotamia and Egypt, one that covered a far larger region, yet lasted a much briefer time (less than a millennium) and left few visible traces. Researchers have...
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-8133-3532-9. Beginning some 5000 years ago, civilized societies emerged along the banks of four great river systems across the Old World: the Nile, the Tigris and Euphrates, the Yellow, and the Indus. Of these, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China are well known to scholars and to history and...
Madison, Wisconsin: Prehistory Press, 1991. — 262 p. — (Monographs in World Archaeology No.3). — ISBN: 0-9629110-1-1; ISSN: 1055-2316. The excavations at Harappa in Punjab (Pakistan) conducted by joint USA and Pakistani teams since 1986 have provided much detailed new information on the development, nature, and significance of this large ancient Indus civilization urban center....
New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2014. — 396 p. The present report unfolds discovery of the earliest civilization of South Asia that flourished at Rakhigarhi, Haryana India during the fourth- third millennium B.C. The cultural milieu typifying the civilization was first reported in the Indus plains at Harappa (1921) followed by Mohenjodaro (1923), subsequent fieldwork...
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989. — 197 pp. — ISBN: 81-204-0404-1. The Harappan or Indus Civilization has proved to be one of the most enigmatic of the world's ancient urban systems. This can be attributed for the most part to the total absence of true historical records that document the Harappan peoples. Given this fact, and the current state of research on the Indus Civilization,...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group / AltaMira Press, 2002. — 288 p. The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of knowledge about this fascinating culture in a readable...
New Delhi: India International Centre, 2013. — 26 p. — (Occasional Publication 48). The Harappan culture flourished in the Indus and adjoining river valleys during the second half of the third millennium BCE. The research carried out in this field for nearly a century has harnessed an enormous amount of data which has been helpful in understanding the formative stages through...
Reaktion Books, 2015. — 192 p. — (Lost Civilizations). — ISBN: 1780235410, 9781780235417. When Alexander the Great invaded the Indus Valley in the fourth century BCE, he was completely unaware that it had once been the center of a civilization that could have challenged ancient Egypt and neighboring Mesopotamia in size and sophistication. In this accessible introduction, Andrew...
Springer, 2016. — 136 p. This book portrays the Himalayan-born River Saraswati, a legendary river that was the lifeline of a progressive and vibrant society for more than three thousand years. Written in simple language and richly illustrated, it highlights the events that resulted in the robbing of the Saraswati of its water and the end of a wonderful culture. The author weaves a...
Cambridge University Press, 1968. — xi, 144, xxxiv Supplementary volume to The Cambridge History of India. 3rd Edition. Terminology Distribution General chronology Climate Towns and villages of hill and plain The Indus civilization Mohenjo-daro and Harappa: general layout Harappa Mohenjo-daro Chanhu-daro Sutkagen-dor and other north-western sites Lothal and other southern and...
СПб.: Наука, 1991. — 178 с. Книга посвящена одной из самых интересных и загадочных в истории древнего мира цивилизаций - прото-индийской, существовавшей в долине Инда в III-II тысячелетии до н.э. Читатель может познакомится не только с последними результатами исследований этого неизвестного доселе фрагмента истории человечества, но и с неразрешимыми проблемами, вставшими перед...
СПб.: Наука, 1991. — 178 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Книга посвящена одной из самых интересных и загадочных в истории древнего мира цивилизаций - прото-индийской, существовавшей в долине Инда в III-II тысячелетии до н.э. Читатель может познакомится не только с последними результатами исследований этого неизвестного доселе фрагмента истории человечества, но и с...
СПб.: Наука, 1991. — 178 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Книга посвящена одной из самых интересных и загадочных в истории древнего мира цивилизаций - прото-индийской, существовавшей в долине Инда в III-II тысячелетии до н.э. Читатель может познакомится не только с последними результатами исследований этого неизвестного доселе фрагмента истории человечества, но и с...
СПб.: Наука, 1991. — 176 с. — ISBN 5-02-027307-4. Книга посвящена одной из самых интересных и загадочных в истории древнего мира цивилизаций - протоиндийской, существовавшей в долине Инда в III-II тысячелетии до нашей эры. Читатель может познакомиться не только с последними результатами исследований этого неизвестного доселе фрагмента истории человечества, но и с неразрешимыми...
М.: Восточная литература, 1994. — 274 с. — ISBN: 5-02-017246-4 Монография посвящена современному этапу исследования культуры протоиндийской цивилизации, существовавшей в долине Инда в III тысячелетии до н.э. В ней рассматривается история открытия и изучения цивилизации, дан обзор основных источников, содержащих сведения об ее культуре. Монография освещает также вопросы...
Перевод с английского Граковой-Свиридовой М.Б. — М.: Иностранная литература, 1951. — 180 с.: ил. На Западе первая попытка научного обобщения результатов работ археологических экспедиций в Мохенджо-Даро и Хараппе была предпринята Э. Маккеем в 1935 г. в монографии «Культура Инда». Автор — один из археологов, производивших раскопки в Мохенджо-Даро — сумел в живой, доступной форме...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1951. — 182 с. На Западе первая попытка научного обобщения результатов работ археологических экспедиций в Мохенджо-Даро и Хараппе была предпринята Э. Маккеем в 1935 г. в монографии «Культура Инда». Автор — один из археологов, производивших раскопки в Мохенджо-Даро — сумел в живой, доступной форме дать сжатую и в то же время достаточно...
Воронеж: Электронная монография на правах рукописи, 2018. — 462 с. + 533 илл. — ISBN: 978-5-9907439-4-6. Изначально замысел данной книги возник по нескольким причинам. Во-первых, у автора накопилось значительное количество иллюстративного материала, оказавшегося невостребованным. Хотелось поделиться им со специалистами и любителями. Хотелось сделать его общедоступным, поскольку...
Воронеж: Электронная монография на правах рукописи, 2018. — 524 с. + 711 илл. — ISBN: 978-5-9907439-5-3. Данный том продолжает «Очерки истории (пре)хараппского искусства Северо-Западного Индостана». Как и первый выпуск, он посвящён доказательству через изучение ранневедийского поэтического канона эпохи Самхит (конец IV – III тыс. до н.э.) и индского искусства эпохи бронзы двух...
Воронеж: Электронная монография на правах рукописи, 2018. — 450 с. + 642 илл. — ISBN: 978-5-9907439-6-0. Данный том продолжает «Очерки истории (пре)хараппского искусства Северо-Западного Индостана». Как и первый и второй выпуски, он посвящён доказательству через изучение ранневедийского поэтического канона эпохи Самхит (конец IV – III тыс. до н.э.) и индского искусства эпохи...
Ленинград: Наука. Ленинградское отделение, 1968. — 163 с. Плоскогорье Декан - крупнейшее плоскогорье Индии. На нем было открыто множество энеолитических культур. Основными источниками при написании данной книги являлись отчеты о раскопках энеолитических поселений в Насике, Джорве, Навдатоли, Невасе, Чандоли, а также материалы, регулярно публикуемые в «Indian archaeology. A reviev»...
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