Rethinking the Indus
Subtitle: a comparative re-evaluation of the Indus civilisation as an alternative paradigm in the organisation and structure of early complex societies
By: Edward Cork
Series: BAR international series -- 2213; BAR international series -- 2213.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781407307718
Subjects: Indus civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-282).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The IC: an early complex society with unique structural organisation?; title: Origins of current interpretation of the IC; title: The aims and approahc of this study; title: The comparative method. Introduction; title: Social evolution and the comparative method: Comparative approaches and the IC ; Methodology adopted by this study ; Choice of comparative datasets ; Summary; title: Domestic architecture: Introduction ; Review of sites ; Building size ; Building and family structure ; Access analyses ; Discussion; title: Metalwork and metalworking: Introduction ; Recent literature ; Ore sources ; Functional group definition ; Discussion of artefact categories ; Elemental composition ; Discussion; title: Settlement patterns. Introduction ; Data collection and formatting issues ; Organisation and subdivision of the Indus settlements ; Third millennium climatic influence on settlement patterns in the Greater Indus Valley ; Settlement hierarchies: site size distribution ; Settlement hierarchies: rank-size ; Discussion; title: Conclusion: Summary ; The success of a comparative approach ; The 'alternative paradigm' model of Indus society in the light of structured comparative analyses ; Moving forwards- interpreting the Indus; title: Appendix A. Architectural data used in chapter 3; title: Appendix B. Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests on house size distribution; title: Appendix C. Permeability maps for the houses used in access analysis, including house RRA and courtyard RRA values; title: Appendix D. Assessing the reliability of published Indus metalwork data; title: Appendix E. Catalogue of metalworks in the Lothal Site Museum and Archive; title: Appendix F. Elemental composition data used in chapter 4; title: Appendix G. Problems recreating Adams' influential 'four-tiered' settlement hierarchy; title: Appendix H. Problems with using sites on the Indus floodplain in settlement analyses; title: Appendix I. Metalwork data; title: Bibliography.