Disease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation / Robert Arnott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnott, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indus civilization.

Medicine, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

This book provides insights into health, disease, and healing in the Indus Civilisation during the third to early second millennia BCE. Based on original research, it examines skeletal remains, material culture, and environmental factors. The book sheds light on diseases, healing practices, and public health in this ancient civilization.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents Page

List of Figures and Tables

Figure 1. Map of principal Indus Civilisation sites (after A. Uesugi, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Figure 2. Harappa site plan showing phases of occupation (© Harappa Archaeological Research Project).

Table 1. Chronology of the Indus Civilisation to 1700 BC.

Table 2. Characteristics of the Mature Harappan Phase (after Smith, M.L. 2006: 97-142).

Table 3. Archaeological criteria for determining urbanism (after Childe 1950: 3-17).

Figure 3. The Indus Script: seals and tablets (© J.M. Kenoyer/Harappa.com and courtesy of the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan).

Figure 4. Steatite seal from Mohenjo-daro depicting a likely religious scene of a deity surrounded by animals (DK5175); Mature Harappan Phase, National Museum, New Delhi (5075/123).

Table 4. Characteristics of the Late Harappan Phase (after Indus Ethnobiology: 1-20).

Table 5. Life expectancy at Harappa (male and female) (after Dales and Kenoyer 1989: 94-106 (contribution by Kennedy and Lovell)).

Table 6. Physical stature of the known population of Harappa (1965) (after Chatterjee and Kumar 1965: 4-5).

Table 7. Age and sex distribution of the Harappa skeletal sample (includes a skeleton excavated in 1966 and displayed in the Harappa Museum, where it was examined in 1988 (after Lovell 1997: Table 1).

Figure 5. Skeleton from Balthal, presenting with evidence of leprosy (1997-1); Ahar Banas Culture (after Robbins et al. 2009).

Table 8. Skeletal markers commonly associated with sickle-cell disease (adapted from Lovell 1998: Table 2).

Figure 7. Sickle haemoglobin haplotype distribution in the Middle East and India.

Figure 8. The female mosquito Anopheles Culcifacies.

Figure 9. Disarticulated skeletons from Mohenjo-daro, found above southern wall of Room 74, House V; Late Harappan Phase (after Mohenjo-daro: plate XLVI(b)).

Table 9. Trauma in human remains at Harappa (1987 and 1988), (after Lovell 2014a: 1-4, Table 1).

Table 10. Incidence of dental pathology at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro (after Lukacs 1982: Table 28.4).

Table 11. Diseases or conditions identified from Indus Civilisation sites.

Figure 10. Dyer’s workshop at Mohenjo-daro, VS Area (after Mohenjo-daro: pl. LIV(a)).

Figure 11. Large well at Mohenjo-daro, HR Area: detail of brick construction; Mature Harappan Phase (© J.M. Kenoyer/Harappa.com and courtesy of the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan).

Figure 12. The ‘Great Bath’ at Mohenjo-daro, SD Area, looking north; Mature Harappan Phase (© J.M. Kenoyer/Harappa.com and courtesy of the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan).

Figure 13. Latrine at Mohenjo-daro, HR Area; Mature Harappan Phase (© J.M. Kenoyer/Harappa.com and courtesy of the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan).

Figure 14. U-shaped cross section of the corbelled drain from Mohenjo-daro exiting the ‘Great Bath’; Mature Harappan Phase (© J.M. Kenoyer/Harappa.com and courtesy of the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan).

Table 12. Cranial trepanation (after Arnott 2013: 23-34). Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781803277394

1803277394

OCLC:

1432710646