Mapping archaeology while mapping an empire: Using historical maps to reconstruct ancient settlement landscapes in modern India and Pakistan

CA Petrie, HA Orengo, AS Green, JR Walker, A Garcia… - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
A range of data sources are now used to support the process of archaeological prospection,
including remote sensed imagery, spy satellite photographs and aerial photographs. This …

Adaptation to Variable Environments, Resilience to Climate Change: Investigating Land, Water and Settlement in Indus Northwest India

CA Petrie, RN Singh, J Bates, Y Dixit… - Current …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper explores the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a
diverse and varied environmental and ecological context using the case study of South …

[HTML][HTML] Killing the priest-king: Addressing egalitarianism in the Indus civilization

AS Green - Journal of archaeological research, 2021 - Springer
The cities of the Indus civilization were expansive and planned with large-scale architecture
and sophisticated Bronze Age technologies. Despite these hallmarks of social complexity …

Counter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements

A Singh, KJ Thomsen, R Sinha, JP Buylaert… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Urbanism in the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation (~ 4.6–3.9 thousand years before the present,
ka) has been linked to water resources provided by large Himalayan river systems, although …

Large-scale, multi-temporal remote sensing of palaeo-river networks: A case study from northwest India and its implications for the Indus Civilisation

HA Orengo, CA Petrie - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing has considerable potential to contribute to the identification and
reconstruction of lost hydrological systems and networks. Remote sensing-based …

Landscape evolution of the NW Himalayan rivers during the late Quaternary and their non-contemporaneity to the Harappan Civilization

I Khan, R Sinha, AS Murray, M Jain - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
A large perennial river system, the Ghaggar-Hakra, fed by the palaeo-Sutlej and palaeo-
Yamuna Rivers from the west and east respectively, has been argued to have sustained the …

Feeding ancient cities in South Asia: dating the adoption of rice, millet and tropical pulses in the Indus civilisation

CA Petrie, J Bates, T Higham, RN Singh - Antiquity, 2016 - cambridge.org
The first direct absolute dates for the exploitation of several summer crops by Indus
populations are presented here. These include rice, millets and three tropical pulse species …

[HTML][HTML] Approaching rice domestication in South Asia: new evidence from Indus settlements in northern India

J Bates, CA Petrie, RN Singh - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017 - Elsevier
The nature and timing of rice domestication and the development of rice cultivation in South
Asia is much debated. In northern South Asia there is presently a significant gap (c. 4200 …

Landscapes of urbanization and de-urbanization: a large-scale approach to investigating the Indus civilization's settlement distributions in Northwest India

AS Green, CA Petrie - Journal of Field Archaeology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Survey data play a fundamental role in studies of social complexity. Integrating the results
from multiple projects into large-scale analyses encourages the reconsideration of existing …

South Asia

CA Petrie - 2013 - academic.oup.com
This article examines the two major phases of early South Asian urbanization. The first,
known as the Indus Civilization, dates between c. 2600 and 1900 bce; while the second …