Oxygen isotope in archaeological bioapatites from India: Implications to climate change and decline of Bronze Age Harappan civilization

Sarkar, Anindya; Deshpande Mukherjee, Arati; Kumar Bera, Melinda; Kumar Das, Bijan; Juyal, Navin; Morthekai, P.; Deshpande, R.D.; Shinde, Vasant; Rao, Lakshmi

doi:10.1038/srep26555

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Oxygen isotope in archaeological bioapatites from India: Implications to climate change and decline of Bronze Age Harappan civilization

Published in Scientific Reports • May 25, 2016

Authors:

Anindya Sarkar

Arati Deshpande Mukherjee

Melinda Kumar Bera

Abstract

The antiquity and decline of the Bronze Age Harappan civilization in the Indus-Ghaggar-Hakra river valleys is an enigma in archaeology. Weakening of the monsoon after ~5 ka BP (and droughts throughout the Asia) is a strong contender for the Harappan collapse, although controversy exists about the sy...

Subject

Bronze

Civilization

Isotopes of oxygen

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