ARCH1492 Fall18 S01 The Priest-Kings and Village Life of Ancient Pakistan and India
ARCH1492 Fall18 S01 The Priest-Kings and Village Life of Ancient Pakistan and India
Lecture 1 - Why should I care about the Indus Civilisation?
Lecture 2 - When, What, Where, Who and Why: a brief history of excavation in the Indus Civilization
Lecture 3 - Predictably Unpredictable: setting the geographical context
Lecture 5 - Early Village Communities of the Hills and on the Plains
Lecture 6 - Developing Village Farming Economies
Lecture 7 - Let Their Be Cities! The rise of Indus urbanism
Lecture 8 - How Typical is the Type Site? Introducing Harappa
Lecture 9 - A Different Case Study: Mohenjo-Daro
Lecture 10 - 'Being Urban': life in the five big sites and some of the smaller sites
Lecture 11 - To Be A State Or Not To Be A State: that is the question
Lecture 13 - Where Are All The Palaces?
Lecture 14 - Priest Kings and Dancing Girls
Lecture 16 - Agriculture, Diet and Food - rethinking approaches to 'subsistence' within the Indus.
Lecture 17 - From Raw Material to Finished Artefact. The Technology of the Indus Civilization
Lecture 18 - The Difficult Topic of the Indus Script
Lecture 19 - How to Move Things from A to B. The Internal Trading Networks of the Indus Civilization
Lecture 21 - Beyond the Indus Civilization I: what was happening in South Asia at the same time?
Lecture 23: Collapse or Transformation? Why did it all end?
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