FURTHER
RESOURCES:
== Another
recently-discovered
ancient civilization, this one in Central Asia, with its eastern wing
in
northern Afghanistan; a report from the NYT, May 13, 2001: on the *CU
website*. (And a little light relief: claims of *ancient
buried pyramids in the Ukraine*)
= Robert J.
Wenke, Patterns
in prehistory: humankind's first three million years (New York:
Oxford
Univ. Press, 1999). Available at Butler, and almost always on reserve.
= The Harappa
website is the
single best source for Indus Valley images and interpretation. It is a
very rich site, and reliable. My own favorite section is the one on the
port city of Lothal, but there's so much more as well, and new material
is constantly being added: *THE
HARAPPA WEBSITE*
= "Mesopotamia",
a wonderful
website maintained by the *British
Museum*
= The
little-known "Ahar-Banas
culture" of western India, c.3000-1500 BCE, a report from Gregory
Possehl
(2001): on the *U.
Penn. Museum website*
= Richard
Covington, "What
Was Jiroft?" SaudiAramco World 55,5 (Sept.-Oct. 2004): *SaudiAramco
website*
= Three famous
articles from
Frontline
17,20 (Sept. 20-Oct. 13, 2000):
1) Michael Witzel
and Steve
Farmer, "Horseplay in Harappa: The Indus Valley Decipherment Hoax":
*Frontline
website*
2) Michael Witzel
and Steve
Farmer, "The direction of Harappan writing": *Frontline
website*
3) Romila Thapar,"Hindutva
and history: Why do Hindutva ideologues keep flogging a dead horse?":
*Frontline
website*
= Smita Gupta, "Saffron
Touch Given to Aryan, Harappan Link." The Times of India,
Oct.
27, 2000: *on
the
CU website*
= Michael Witzel,
"A Bushy
Tail: The Piltdown Horse." In Outlook India (Nov. 6,
2000):
on the *Outlook
India website*
= THE LATEST BIG
THING: Farmer,
Witzel, and Sproat argue that the Indus Valley signs definitely do NOT
encode a script:much material available on *Steve
Farmer's website*. A small sample of script analysis: *here*.
Their major article *here*
(warning: it's a huge PDF file).