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The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes Up to c. 200 BC : Resource Use, Resource Access and Lines of Communication

by: Lahiri, N.

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Category: Ancient Economic History / Economic Studies / Prehistoric-Greek-Roman-Byzantine
Code: 8645
ISBN-13: 9780195628142 / 978-0-19-562814-2
ISBN-10: 0195628144 / 0-19-562814-4
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1992
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 461
Book Condition: As New

 
The archaeology of Indian trade routes up to c. 200 BC : resources use, resource access and lines of communication

Author:Nayanjot Lahiri

Summary:This archaeological study attempts to provide an understanding of the utilization of certain specific raw materials by cultures in the Indian subcontinent before and during the 2nd century BC.

This study explores the utilization of certain specific raw materials by archaeological cultures in different periods. Lahiri delineates the probable areas which could have supplied the raw materials to these cultures, and, on this basis, the essential direction of routes in and across
distinct zones. The earliest proto-historic lines of movement--primarily confined to the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent--that developed in the period antecedent to the Harappan civilization are examined. So is the articulation of commerce and movement under the overarching
socio-political authority of the Harappan urban phenomenon. The study also analyzes the opening out of the main and secondary arteries in inner India, i.e. across the Aravalli-Cambay divide, by examining the pattern of resource-use and resource-access of the less spectacular neolithic-chalcolithic
cultural pockets, spread over large parts of the subcontinent from Kashmir to Tamil Nadu. In the context of the early historical period, an analysis of the literary image of the grand routes of Uttarapatha and Dakshinapatha, and their material correlates in the form of archaeological data scattered
along these routes, are also presented.

xiii, 461 pages : maps ; 25 cm


Subjects:
history of Asia
Antiquities
Archaeology
Archeologie
Commerce
Commerce history
Handelswegen
History
Inde Antiquités
Inde Commerce Histoire
Inde Histoire Jusqu'à 324 av. J.-C
Inde Histoire Jusqu'à 324 av. J.C
India
India Antiquities
India Commerce History
India History To 324 B.C
Routes commerciales Inde Histoire
To 324 B.C

 
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The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes Up to c. 200 BC : Resource Use, Resource Access and Lines of Communication

by: Lahiri, N.

  • ISBN-13: 9780195628142 / 978-0-19-562814-2
  • ISBN-03: 0195628144 / 0-19-562814-4
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992

Price: 79,00 EURO

1 copy in stock