Adaptation to Variable Environments, Resilience to Climate Change: Investigating<i>Land, Water and Settlement</i>in Indus Northwest India

A. Petrie, Cameron; Singh, Ravindra; Bates, J.L.; Dixit, Yama; A. I. French, Charly; A Hodell, David; Jones, Penelope; Lancelotti, Carla; Lynam, Frank; Neogi, Sayantani; K. Pandey, Arun; Parikh, Danika; Pawar, Vikas; Redhouse, David; P. Singh, Dheerendra

doi:10.1086/690112

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Adaptation to Variable Environments, Resilience to Climate Change: InvestigatingLand, Water and Settlementin Indus Northwest India

Published in Current Anthropology • Jan 18, 2017

Authors:

Cameron A. Petrie

Ravindra Singh

J.L. Bates

Abstract

This paper explores the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a diverse and varied environmentaland ecological context using the case study of South Asias Indus Civilization (ca. 30001300 BC). Most earlycomplex societies developed in regions where the climatic parameters fa...

Subject

Indus

Context (archaeology)

Civilization

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