Download or read book Studies in the Archaeology of India and Pakistan written by Jerome Jacobson and published by Aris & Phillips. This book was released on 1986-12-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published here for the first time, these papers by some of the leading international authorities on South Asian archaeology present material which may surprise the archaeological community and perhaps startle the educated layman. In one chapter, Gregory Possehl offers both botanical and cultural evidence to support his bolk new theory that staple crops which provided the economic base for early village cultures in India amost 4,000 years ago and ultimately led to the development of later Indian civilization, where not domesticated on the subcontinent but, according to Possehl, were introduced to western INdia directly overseas from Africa. In another provacative paper, J. Desmond Clark, the internationally renowned Africanist, describes the recent discovery of remains of what they suggest may be the oldest known religious structure ever found on the subcontinent. The 11,000 year old Central Indian shrine is almost identical in symbolic motif to those still erected by people living in the area today. Other distinguished scholars present intriguing research result and interpretations in this volume.