Northwest India between 2000 and 300 BC

[Guest guest]

Dear friends,

 

The current and ambicious project " Land, Water and Settlement: Environmental

constraints and human responses in northwest India between 2000 and 300 BC " is

being carried out by Banaras Hindu University and Cambridge University. As it is

obvious it deals with the period between Indus Civilization and Second

Urbanization. The two main investigators are Dr. Cameron Petrie from Cambridge

and Dr. R.N. Singh from BHU.

 

Basically Dr Petrie stresses that this is one of the first projects that

combines the efforts of archaeologists, geographers and geologists. One of the

aims is to establish when Saraswati river ceased to flow. It could confirm or

deny previous researches.

 

Project's first field season was in 2008 with some important results like that

the exact location of Harappan and Late Harappan archaeological sites,

especially in Haryana State, is bad informed in practically all past reports;

and maybe the more important fact that Haryana has MANY MORE Harappan sites than

previously thought because a great number of them are in mounds below current

villages and others are not mentioned in official lists.

 

Project's latest updating is at:

 

(Previous Reasearch): http://tinyurl.com/oye9gw

 

(2008 Season): http://tinyurl.com/osejfs

 

There is also a fundamental report in the latest issue of Man and Environment

journal:

 

Singh R. N., Petrie C.A. et al. 2008, " Settlements in context: Reconnaissance in

western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana " , in Man and Environment 33 (2), pp. 71-87.

(Full text): http://tinyurl.com/qgmhhu

 

Best regards,

 

Carlos