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Harappan technology and its legacy / D.P. Agarwal

By: Agarwal, D.PMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Rupa, c2009Description: xxxiv, 332 p.; 22cmISBN: 9788129115324Subject(s): Indian History -- Harappa Civilisation | Harappa Civilisation -- Harappan TechnologyDDC classification: 934

Contents:

1. INTRODUCTION 2. ECOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY EVIDENCE FROM WESTERN INDIA: RAJASTHAN AND GUJARAT EVIDENCE FROM THE ARABIAN SEA AND ARABIAN COAST: Malvan, Nal Lake, Gujarat EVIDENCE FROM OTHER REGIONS: Balakot; Mehrgarh; Bannu Basin 3. ARCHITECTURE AND HYDRAULICS ARCHITECTURE Layout of Harappan Cities; Platforms; The Wbeeler-Piggott Paradigm; Domestic Architecture; Was it always the Grid Toipu Plan? Harappan Cities: Kalibangan; Banawali; Lothal; Surkotada; Dholavira Building Technology: Mensuration; Baked Bricks Engineering Technology:The Masonry of Walls; Doors and Windows; Mortar; Stone Architectural Pieces HYDRAULICS The Great Bath; Household Bathing Platforms; Wells; Drainage-related Hydraulic Structures; Water Reservoirs The Reservoirs at Dholavira (SR-1 to SR-5); Storm Water Drainage; Other Hydraulic Structures 4. ARTS, CRAFTS AND TRANSPORT Sculpture; Drainage System; Stone Technology; Transport: Boats; Standardisation; Innovations; Textiles; Lapidary Technology; Beads and Ornaments; Seals; Shell Technology; Trade: Internal Trade 5. CERAMICS, FAIENCE AND PYROTECHNOLOGY 137 CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY Clay coatings; Specialisation, Standardisation and Control; Excavations at Harappa:Wright's Conclusions; Faience and Stoneware Technology: Archaeological data,Glazed and non-glazed materials, Chemical and Mineralogical Composition, Composition of the Glazes, Talc-Faience Complex:Technological Innovation; Pyrotechnology 6. METALLURGY--Sources of Metal Copper: Baluchistan-Afghanistan, Oman, West Asian Sources,Indian Copper Ores; Silver MANUFACTURING ARTEFACTS AND PYROTECHNOLOGY Casting and Fabrication; Alloying; Pyrotechnology; Types of Artefacts: Harappan Ornaments and Mirrors, Types of Artefacts from Chanhudaro, Types of Artefacts from Mohenjodaro, Copper Artefacts from Harappa, Copper/Bronze Artefacts and Manufacturing Evidence from Lothal, Artefacts from Banawali, Copper Artefacts from Rojdi, Copper Artefact from Padri, Copper Artefacts from Dholavira, Copper Artefacts from Surkotada, Artefacts from Kalibangan; Inscribed Metal Objects; Repertoire of Late Harappan Metal Artefacts: Sites in Haryana and Punjab, Area between Swat and Chitral, Kashmir, Bronzes from Daimabad 7. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND AGRICULTURE Domestication, Prehistoric Pastoralism, Did the Harappans use the Horse?, Use of Wild Animals, Use of Non-Mammalian Species 8. LEGACY AND TRANSFORMATION PREAMBLE Transformation: TheEclipse?; The Legacy: Ornaments and Toiletry, Objects of Recreation, Architecture, Ovens, Farming and Hydraulics, Transport, Crafts, Folk tales, Ratnagar on Legacy.

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Reference Books	Central Library, Sikkim University Reference	Reference Collection	934 AGA/H/P09-CL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		P21717

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1. INTRODUCTION

2. ECOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
EVIDENCE FROM WESTERN INDIA: RAJASTHAN AND GUJARAT EVIDENCE FROM THE ARABIAN SEA AND ARABIAN COAST: Malvan, Nal Lake, Gujarat
EVIDENCE FROM OTHER REGIONS: Balakot; Mehrgarh; Bannu Basin

3. ARCHITECTURE AND HYDRAULICS

ARCHITECTURE
Layout of Harappan Cities; Platforms; The Wbeeler-Piggott Paradigm; Domestic Architecture; Was it always the Grid Toipu Plan?
Harappan Cities: Kalibangan; Banawali; Lothal; Surkotada; Dholavira
Building Technology: Mensuration; Baked Bricks
Engineering Technology:The Masonry of Walls; Doors and Windows; Mortar; Stone Architectural Pieces

HYDRAULICS
The Great Bath; Household Bathing Platforms; Wells; Drainage-related Hydraulic Structures; Water Reservoirs The Reservoirs at Dholavira (SR-1 to SR-5); Storm Water Drainage; Other Hydraulic Structures

4. ARTS, CRAFTS AND TRANSPORT
Sculpture; Drainage System; Stone Technology; Transport: Boats; Standardisation; Innovations; Textiles; Lapidary Technology; Beads and Ornaments; Seals; Shell Technology; Trade: Internal Trade

5. CERAMICS, FAIENCE AND PYROTECHNOLOGY 137 CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY
Clay coatings; Specialisation, Standardisation and Control; Excavations at Harappa:Wright's Conclusions; Faience and Stoneware Technology: Archaeological data,Glazed and non-glazed materials, Chemical and Mineralogical Composition, Composition of the Glazes, Talc-Faience Complex:Technological Innovation; Pyrotechnology

6. METALLURGY--Sources of Metal
Copper: Baluchistan-Afghanistan, Oman, West Asian Sources,Indian Copper Ores; Silver

MANUFACTURING ARTEFACTS AND PYROTECHNOLOGY
Casting and Fabrication; Alloying; Pyrotechnology; Types of Artefacts: Harappan Ornaments and Mirrors, Types of Artefacts from Chanhudaro, Types of Artefacts from Mohenjodaro, Copper Artefacts from Harappa, Copper/Bronze Artefacts and Manufacturing Evidence from Lothal, Artefacts from Banawali, Copper Artefacts from Rojdi, Copper Artefact from Padri, Copper Artefacts from Dholavira, Copper Artefacts from Surkotada, Artefacts from Kalibangan; Inscribed Metal Objects; Repertoire of Late Harappan Metal Artefacts: Sites in Haryana and Punjab, Area between Swat and Chitral, Kashmir, Bronzes from Daimabad

7. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND AGRICULTURE
Domestication, Prehistoric Pastoralism, Did the Harappans use the Horse?, Use of Wild Animals, Use of Non-Mammalian Species

8. LEGACY AND TRANSFORMATION PREAMBLE
Transformation: TheEclipse?; The Legacy: Ornaments and Toiletry, Objects of Recreation, Architecture, Ovens, Farming and Hydraulics, Transport, Crafts, Folk tales, Ratnagar on Legacy.

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