(The) Oxford companion to Indian archaeology : the archaeological foundations of ancient India stone age to AD 13th century / by Dilip K. Chakrabarti

Includes appendix, bibliography and index.

The discoveries of stone age sites and tools -- Hominid fossils, earliest stone tools, and India in the current scheme of human evolution -- Palaeolithic sites, sequences and materials -- Palaeolithic India -- The mesolithic evidence -- Probl;em of the beginning of the food production in India and the evidence from mehrgarh -- Beyond mehrgarh -- Origin and chronology of the Harappan or Indus civilization -- Distribution and morphological features of mature Harappan settlements -- Aspects of the Indus civilization -- Late harappan phase and the legacy of the Indus civilization -- Beginning of rice agriculture in the central Ganga plain and other issues -- Neolithic-Chalcolithic cultures outside the Harappan orbit -- The beginning of iron -- The foundation of early historic India -- Beginning of early historic India -- Early historic cities -- The material basis of life -- Art and architecture -- Inscriptions, coins, religions -- Multiple and shifting centres of power, AD C.7th - C.13th centuries -- Settlements, irrigation, technology, trade -- Inscriptions and coins -- Temples, monasteries, sculpture and painting -- Archaeology of India