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MORTIMER WHEELER SIR THE INDUS CIVILIZATION THIRD EDITION s. e>a. net $2.9! IN U.K. IN U.S.A s^ t^JD^v-/ oz<$ ( 1 *1 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/cambridgehistoryOOraps - THE INDUS CIVILIZATION SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME TO THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA THE INDUS CIVILIZATION SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME TO THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA BY MORTIMER WHEELER SIR Third Edition CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1968 Published by the Syndics ofthe Cambridge University Press Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London, n.w.i American Branch: 32 East 57th Street, New York, n.y.10022 This edition © Cambridge University Press 1968 Library ofCongress Catalogue Card Number: 22-11272 Standard Book Numbers: 521 06958 o clothbound 521 09538 7 paperback First edition 1953 Second edition i960 Reprinted i960,1962 Third edition 1968 Printed in Great Britain at the University PrintingHouse, Cambridge (Brooke Crutchley, University Printer) A 3 CONTENTS LastofPlates page vii "List ofFigures in the Text x List ofFolding Plan andSections x Prefatory Note xi Notes to the Secondand ThirdTLditions xi Terminology 2 Distribution 2 General chronology 5 Climate 6 Towns and villages ofhill and plain 9 The Indus civilization 24 Mohenjo-daro and Harappa: general layout 26 Harappa 27 Mohenjo-daro 37 Chanhu-daro 6 5 Sutkagen-dor and other north-western sites 59 Lothal and other southern and eastern sites 63 Burials and skeletal types 66 Military aspects ofthe Indus civilization 72 Commerce and transport 79 Farming and fauna 84 Arts and crafts 86 The Indus script 107 The Indus religions 108 no 126 134 Errata to Plate Numbers: ^ p. 41, line 2 forVIIIA read IX pp.. 6503,, lliinnee 1137 ffoorrXXIXIIIBA rreeaaddXXIXVVBA I^4I p. 63, line 19 for XXII read XXVI p. 78, line 8 for XXIV read XXIX p. 1o5\ line 1 for XXIII read XXVII
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