Anthropological conceptions of the nature and course of agricultural change have been
strongly influenced by the seminal work of Ester Boserup. In this paper I suggest that the�…

When the general public thinks of the origins of agriculture they often think of VG Childe's
(1923) Neolithic Revolution, the fertile crescent, and the spread from East to West of a few�…

The paper describes the ancient plant economy in the Indian subcontinent in a
chronological framework of cultural development from the earliest Neolithic cultures of�…

This book analyzes the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late
Harappan cultures (ca. 2500-1700 BC) of northwest India. The economic role of drought�…

Northeast India forms a kaleidoscope of a variety of people having distinct culture, ethnicity,
religion, language, and physiology, and can be considered as a melting pot of various ethnic�…

The Neolithic period in the south Deccan plateau of south India seems to have begun
sometime in the 3 rd millennium BC. It is therefore not one of the world's earliest Neolithic�…

Cultivation of crops as a distinct economic activity is a complex human behavior that needs
to be clearly demonstrated in archaeological contexts, particularly to determine whether crop�…

While hominin occupation of South Asia may date to as early as 2 million years ago
(Petraglia and Allchin, 2007), in South lndia the earliest evidence for human ancestors�…

This dissertation examines the importance of millets in pastoral and settled farming
communities during the Late Harappan (2100-1300 BC) in Gujarat, India. The economic role�…

We present archaeobotanical data based on plant macroremains obtained from three
archaeological sites in the Ganga Plain. The paper provides insight into a range of taxa�…