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Lindstrom, Katie E.

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Pottery preferences and community dynamics in the Indus Civilization borderlands.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pottery preferences and community dynamics in the Indus Civilization borderlands./
Author:	Lindstrom, Katie E.
Description:	503 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-11A(E).
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3588524
ISBN:	9781303266805

Pottery preferences and community dynamics in the Indus Civilization borderlands.
Lindstrom, Katie E.

Pottery preferences and community dynamics in the Indus Civilization borderlands. - 503 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2013.

Archaeological research presented in this dissertation confronts assumptions about the spatial patterning of Harappan pottery in borderland regions of the Indus Civilization (2600-1900 BC), a geographically expansive ancient state located across Pakistan and northwestern India. Traditional models for the Indus borderland region of Gujarat are based on the supposition that Harappan material culture was introduced by elite merchants and craftspeople from core areas of urbanism in the Indus Valley, represented by the type sites of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa. Whereas Indus settlements often contain monumental perimeter walls, which protected craft industries located inside, the traditional model predicts that Harappan pottery will be found concentrated inside walled areas. However, these are untested hypotheses. Interpretative implications of this model are particularly significant at sites where non-Harappan pottery are also found since the model assumes pottery represent people: the Harappans---who are elite, reside inside perimeter walls, and have ancestral connections to the Indus Valley, and non-Harappans---who are local non-elite residing outside the wall.

ISBN: 9781303266805Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

Pottery preferences and community dynamics in the Indus Civilization borderlands.
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520 $a However, I contend that because ethnic, class, and personal identities of borderland communities are complex they cannot be simplified into categories of pottery representing core and periphery. Social dynamics are better accessed through a comparative approach, which identifies types of Harappan pottery that were present and absent from regional assemblages. Applied at Bagasra, a small, walled craft center in Gujarat, this research has identified a set of regional pottery preferences in Harappan ceramics. This study documented the unique occurrence of Harappan pottery types at Bagasra, and their percentage and spatial distribution on both sides of the perimeter wall, where they occur in association with non-Harappan pottery. Thus, this study presents new data that contradicts expectations of the traditional model. I contend we can no longer assume that Harappan pottery was the only pottery utilized by elite residents of Indus settlements, nor that Harappan and non-Harappan pottery will appear in discrete locations segregated by perimeter walls. This research establishes that analyzing contexts for the use of pottery types refines our understanding of the nature of Harappan and non-Harappan interactions through identifying the pottery preferences of unique borderland regions.
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