Antiquity Vol 73:282, 1999 pp 813-826 - Steven Weber - Seeds of urbanism: palaeoethnobotany and the Indus Civilization

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Volume: 73 Number: 282 Page: 813–826

Seeds of urbanism: palaeoethnobotany and the Indus Civilization

Steven Weber¹

¹Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue, Vancouver WA 98686-9600, USA.

Palaeoethnobotanical evidence reveals that there was increasing emphasis on greater varieties of species and cropping practices in the changing subsistence of the Indus civilization: agricultural intensification is discussed in relation to social and environmental changes.

Keywords: Indus, Harappa, Rojdi, botanical remains, food agriculture, cereals