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Social change at the Harappan settlement of Gola Dhoro: a reading from animal bones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Brad Chase
Brad Chase*
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*Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Albion College, 611 East Porter Street, Albion, MI 49224, USA (email: bchase@albion.edu)
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Abstract

Detailed analysis of the animal bone assemblage at Gola Dhoro here throws light on the expansion of the Indus civilisation into Gujarat. A square fort, imposed on a settlement of livestock herders in the later third millennium BC, was shown to have contained people who introduced a broader diet of meat and seafood, and new ways of preparing it. These social and dietary changes were coincident with a surge in craft and trade.

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South AsiaHarappanIndusBronze Agefaunal analysisanimal boneslivestockdietpastoral economysocial practiceinter-regional interaction
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Antiquity , Volume 84 , Issue 324 , June 2010 , pp. 528 - 543
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2010

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