ANT316 - South Asian Archaeology
H.
Miller, Fall 2004
Site Summaries: Content & Format
1. Heading &
Layout: Put each site on a separate page, and only submit
one page per site. Put the site name
at the top of the page, with your name under it, and the date due in the
third line. Do NOT use a separate cover sheet. For example:
Harappa
Heather M.-L. Miller
Sept. 14, 2004
2. Format of Information:
Site Location: include modern country, state or province, other
locational features such as nearby mountains or rivers; also provide coordinates
if available
Site Time Period: provide both period name and calendar years (indicate
if bp, radiocarbon years, or BC, and if calibrated
or uncalibrated, if possible)
Site Type: for example, city, town, village, specialized kiln
site, hoard, etc.
Distinctive Features
of Site: what would you use as clues for
someone trying to guess the site name? in list or outline format,
no more than 5-6 clues
3. References &
Location of Reference: Provide full bibliographic
citations for all the references you used, in the American Antiquity format specified for the class
and used for the syllabus bibliography. Also
include the location and catalogue number of the reference (eg., UTM
library, DS 123. 45 1972). This is very important,
as I will want to locate some of these references myself in future.
You must provide
a minimum of 3 references for each site. Class
notes are NOT a sufficient reference, although they may give you helpful
ideas. You should begin by using a general
text or encyclopedia to get an overview of each site.
These must be recently published (1990 or later). However, the majority of your references
should be from scholarly journals or volumes, and these can be older than
1990.
4. Location of
Information: Provide a brief outline of how you found the
references you used - library catalogue search, references found in the
bibliographies of class readings, help from the librarian (Pam King), help
from a fellow students, etc.
*****Please be sure
to type these summaries.
Suggested Initial
References for Site Summaries
On Reserve at UTM
***Your class readings,
especially Shaffer 1992 and Possehl & Rissman 1992. Full versions
of these are on reserve in the book Chronologies in Old World Archaeology.
***Agrawal,
D.P. and J.S. Kharakwal. 2003. Bronze and Iron Ages in South
Asia. (Archaeology of South Asia-II) Aryan Books International,
New Delhi. Very good & up-to-date for the Indus Integration Era
through the Iron Age, and excellent coverage of NW India and Himalayas. Also
a good summary of the available evidence for the Indus religion, p. 99-110.
--Allchin, Bridget and Raymond Allchin. 1982. The Rise of Civilization
in India and Pakistan. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge. Be cautious about BC/AD dates - some may need
to be updated.
***Allchin, F. R.
(editor) 1995. The
Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge. General text for
the Early Historic period.
--Fairservis, Walter.
1975. The Roots of Ancient India. University
of Chicago Press, Chicago. (but out of date, be careful!)
***Kenoyer, J. Mark. 1998. Ancient Cities
of the Indus Valley Civilization. Oxford University
Press & American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Karachi. General text for the Indus
Tradition, from Early Food-Producing to Localization Era & beyond. Especially good for the Pakistani sites.
--Settar, S. & Ravi Korisettar. 2002. Indian Archaeology
in Retrospect. Volumes I-IV. Indian
Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. Recent 4-volume set; the volumes on pre-history (Vol. I) and the Indus
civilization (Vol II) are the most useful for site information. On order for UTM.
***Possehl, Gregory
L. 2002. The Indus Civilization. A Contemporary Perspective.
Altamira, Lanham, MD. General text for the
Indus Tradition, from Early Food-Producing to Localization Era & beyond
(although Possehl does not use these terms). Especially
good for the Indian sites.
Good for second,
more specific references
--The bibliographies of the sources
above.
***The volumes of
the South Asian Archaeology series, the proceedings of the conference held
in Europe every other year - odd-numbered years from 1973; the
last one published to date is South Asian Archaeology 1997. These
contain field reports by the team heads, especially for the foreign
(non-South Asian) projects.
--Various edited volumes - check
your class reading list, and look for other articles in these volumes. This includes Greg Possehl's 3 edited volumes, which
contain collections of many famous articles.
Field Reports
(often sketchy and later updated)
--Indian Archaeology
- A Review (All sites excavated in India have a very short
report published in IA for each season of excavation. These articles are usually too short to count as
one of your information sources, but they are good leads.)
--Puratattva (Another
Indian journal, with longer articles)
--Man and Environment (Ditto; no U of T library has
this journal, but UTM has ordered it)
--Ancient India
(for older excavations,
pre-Partition)
--Pakistan Archaeology (long
reports on fieldwork in Pakistan, including foreign teams)
--Ancient Pakistan (long reports on fieldwork in
Pakistan, particularly the Northwest.