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Harappa: new discoveries on its origins and growth
Lahore Museum bulletin • 12 (1) • Published In 1999 • Pages: 1-11
By: Kenoyer, Jonathan M., Meadow, Richard H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document provides a very brief description of ongoing excavations at Harappa. It presents dates for the various phases (especially Ravi and Kot Dijian), explains how they were defined, and discusses the diagnostic artifacts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Reviews and critiques
- Diagnostic material attributes
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Indus
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1986-1990, 1993-1999
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 5300-2300 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Harappa, Punjab, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jonathan Mark Kenoyer and Richard H. Meadow
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 6-7)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90931184
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indus civilization