Book contents
- The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization
- The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- One Introduction
- Two The Paleoenvironmental Context
- Three Laying the Groundwork
- Four Southwest Asian Crops and Their Significance
- Five Big Millets
- Six Small Millets
- Seven Rice
- Eight Tropical Pulses and the Identification of Local Domestication Processes
- Nine Microfossils and the Multi-proxy Approach
- Ten Beyond ‘Staples’
- Eleven Crop Processing and Social Organization
- Twelve Cropping Strategies and Seasonality
- Thirteen Irrigation and Intensification
- Fourteen Indus Identities and Food
- Fifteen The ‘Late Harappan Revolution’
- Sixteen The Burnt Remains
- References
- Index
Eleven - Crop Processing and Social Organization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2024
Book contents
- The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization
- The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- One Introduction
- Two The Paleoenvironmental Context
- Three Laying the Groundwork
- Four Southwest Asian Crops and Their Significance
- Five Big Millets
- Six Small Millets
- Seven Rice
- Eight Tropical Pulses and the Identification of Local Domestication Processes
- Nine Microfossils and the Multi-proxy Approach
- Ten Beyond ‘Staples’
- Eleven Crop Processing and Social Organization
- Twelve Cropping Strategies and Seasonality
- Thirteen Irrigation and Intensification
- Fourteen Indus Identities and Food
- Fifteen The ‘Late Harappan Revolution’
- Sixteen The Burnt Remains
- References
- Index
Summary
Having established what Indus peoples had and where it came from, it is incumbent on us to ask what they were actually doing with it. Chapter 11 takes a more theoretical turn in the book by looking at the questions Indus scholars have asked of the data, starting with how agriculture has been used to think about labour organization and with that social organization at large.
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- The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization , pp. 184 - 203Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025