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Abstract
This book analyzes the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (ca. 2500-1700 BC) of northwest India. The economic role of drought-resistant millet crops is reconstructed using ethnographic studies of crop processing, palaeoethnobotany, and carbon isotope analysis. Reddy reveals that simply recovering crop seeds from archaeological contexts does not confirm local crop cultivation, and she suggests that agricultural production of millet crops for human food and for animal fodder may have been economically interwoven in the Harappan civilization. New directions are provided for discerning archaeologically how pastoralism and agriculture may be integrated in complex economic systems.
Seetha Narahari Reddy is a Principal Investigator with Reddy Anthropology Consulting.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discerning Palates of the Past | i | ||
| Copyright | ii | ||
| Dedication | iii | ||
| Table of Contents | v | ||
| List of Figures | vii | ||
| List of Tables | ix | ||
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||
| Chapter 1. Plants, Past and Present | 1 | ||
| Chapter 2. Archaeological Context and the Scope of Inquiry | 3 | ||
| Chapter 3. The Living Past | 18 | ||
| Chapter 4. The Search for Patterns | 55 | ||
| Chapter 5. Going Beyond Carbonized Seed Lists | 108 | ||
| Chapter 6. If the Threshing Floor Could Talk | 132 | ||
| Chapter 7. Modeling Animal Diet and Fodder Acquisition | 154 | ||
| Chapter 8. Conclusion | 163 | ||
| Glossary | 167 | ||
| References | 169 |