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  • 3 - Monsoon and Societies in Southwest Asia

  • Peter D. Clift, Louisiana State University, Jade d'Alpoim Guedes
  • Book:
    Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia
    Published online:
    17 December 2020
    Print publication:
    07 January 2021, pp 72-111

  • Summary

    Southwest Asia is one of the driest parts of the monsoon region with much of the precipitation concentrated toward the southeast, as well as along the front of the Himalayas. This chapter reviews how humans in Northwest India and Pakistan dealt with changes in precipitation and river course and developed agricultural strategies to mitigate fluctuating rainfall and river load. These strategies included increasing mobility or shifting settlement to areas with higher rainfall, diversification through use of different crops at one site or increasing investment in pastoralism. Finally, a wide variety of small-scale irrigation systems were likely employed that were uniquely attuned to their local environment. Some of the strategies, such as the adoption of arid adapted millets employed by these farmers, may represent useful adaptations for our future.

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

  • Brad Chase
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 84 / Issue 324 / June 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 528-543
    Print publication:
    June 2010

  • 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.