Cambridge University Press, Date: 1988. Softcover. Good. Paperback, illustrations in b/w, large 8vo. 1988. Cambridge University Press ISBN 052128550x 9780521285506 [NL]

Cambridge University Press, Date: 1982. Paperback. Robert Squier's tidy name stamp, else very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight. From the library of Anthropologist Robert J. Squier. 379pp. 1982. Cambridge University Press ISBN 052128550x 9780521285506 [US]

ISBN10: 052128550X, ISBN13: 9780521285506, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Many spectacular discoveries of archeaological significance have been made in the Indian subcontinent since the first appearance of Raymond and Bridget Allchin's book The Birth of Indian Civilization, for long the most authoritative and widely read text on its subject. Advances in related fields, particularly in geomorphology, palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology, have also radically altered our picture of the emergence of Indian civilisation. In The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan the authors have completely revised and rewritten their earlier work to present an integrated and dynamic account of human culture in South Asia. Drawing primarily upon the archaeological record, and supported by ethnographic, linguistic and historical evidence, the authors trace the origins and development of culture in India and Pakistan from its earliest roots in Palaeolithic times, through the rise and disintegration of the great Indus Civilization to the emergence of regional cultures, and the arrival and spread of Indo-Aryan speaking peoples. They conclude with the early Buddhist period and the appearance of city states right across Pakistan and North India, establishing the pattern of subcontinental unity and regional diversity that was to characterize the country henceforward. The authors have made every attempt to ...
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