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| Series Editor's Preface | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Indus in Its Setting | |
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| A Lost Civilization | |
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| A Land of Unsolved Mysteries | |
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| Indus Civilization | |
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| Location of the Indus Civilization and Its Environmental Setting | |
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| Location | |
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| The Environmental Setting | |
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| The Changing Landscape | |
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| Environmental Degradation | |
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| Historical and Chronological Setting | |
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| History of the Investigation of South Asia's Past | |
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| Studying the Indus Civilization | |
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| Origins, Growth, and Decline of the Indus Civilization | |
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| Early South Asia (ca. 2 to 1 Million-7000 BCE) | |
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| Early Farmers in Northwest South Asia (7000-4300 BCE) | |
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| Later Settlements (4300-3200 BCE) | |
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| The Early Indus (Early Harappan) Period (3200-2600 BCE) | |
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| The Transition (2600-2500/2450 BCE) | |
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| The Mature Indus Civilization (2600-1900/1800 BCE) | |
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| The Posturban (Late Harappan) Period (1900/1800-1300 BCE) | |
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| Economics | |
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| Subsistence Patterns | |
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| Arable Agriculture | |
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| Animal Husbandry | |
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| Aquatic Resources | |
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| Wild Resources | |
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| Resources, Trade, and Communications | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Internal Trade and Communications | |
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| South Asian Trade and Exchange | |
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| Overland Trade across the Iranian Plateau | |
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| Gulf Trade | |
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| Later Developments in Local and International Trade | |
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| Settlements | |
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| Settlements and Settlement Patterns | |
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| Cities, Towns, and Villages | |
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| The Features of Urban Centers | |
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| Social and Political Organization | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Clues to Social Organization | |
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| Clues to Political Organization | |
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| Religion and Ideology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Religious Structures | |
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| Iconography | |
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| Ritual Practices | |
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| The Treatment of the Dead | |
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| Reconstructing Harappan Religion | |
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| Material Culture | |
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| Workshops and Factories | |
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| Construction | |
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| Artifacts | |
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| Art | |
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| Intellectual Accomplishments | |
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| Numbers, Time, and Space | |
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| Languages | |
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| The Indus Script | |
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| Current Assessment | |
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| The Indus Civilization Today | |
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| The Emergence of Harappan Civilization | |
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| Theories on the Sociopolitical Organization of the Indus State | |
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| Indus Collapse | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Resources for Further Study | |
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| General | |
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| History of Discovery | |
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| Indus Antecedents | |
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| The Indus Civilization in South Asian Culture | |
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| Neighbors of the Indus Civilization | |
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| The End of the Indus Civilization and the Post-Harappan Period | |
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| Economy, Trade, and Foreign Relations | |
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| Industry, Technology, and Science | |
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| The Harappan People | |
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| Social and Political Organization | |
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| Settlement and Settlements | |
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| Language, Writing, and Seals | |
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| Useful Web Pages | |
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| Journals and Occasional Publications | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |