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
Thirteen - Irrigation and Intensification
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
With the Indus as a large urban Bronze Age culture, one of the key challenges driving the theory of Chapters 11 and 12 has been how to feed big cities? Intensification and centralization have underlain much of the Indus social modelling, and Chapter 13 dives into one of the big topics within this – irrigation as a system of intensification.
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- The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization , pp. 221 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025