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Seeds of urbanism: palaeoethnobotany and the Indus Civilization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Steven Weber
Steven Weber*
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Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue, Vancouver WA 98686-9600, USA . weber@vancouver.wsu.edu
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Abstract

Palaeoethnobotanical evidence reveals that there was increasing emphasis on greater varieties of species and cropping practices in the changing subsistence of the Indus civilization: agricultural intensification is discussed in relation to social and environmental changes.

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IndusHarappaRojdibotanical remainsfood agriculturecereals
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 282 , December 1999 , pp. 813 - 826
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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