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.