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| Petrie, Cameron A.; Singh, Ravindra N.; Bates, Jennifer; Dixit, Yama; French, Charly A. I.; Hodell, David A.; Jones, Penelope J.; Lancelotti, Carla; Lynam, Frank; Neogi, Sayantani; Pandey, Arun K.; Parikh, Danika; Pawar, Vikas; Redhouse, David I.; Singh, Dheerendra P.. |
| This paper explores the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a diverse and varied environmental and ecological context using the case study of South Asia’s Indus Civilization (ca. 3000–1300 BC). Most early complex societies developed in regions where the climatic parameters faced by ancient subsistence farmers were varied but rain falls primarily in one season. In contrast, the Indus Civilization developed in a specific environmental context that spanned a very distinct environmental threshold, where winter and summer rainfall systems overlap. There is now evidence to show that this region was directly subject to climate change during the period when the Indus Civilization was at its height (ca. 2500–1900 BC). The Indus... |
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| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00369/47977/48002.pdf |
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| Dixit, Yama; Hodell, David A.; Giesche, Alena; Tandon, Sampat K.; Gazquez, Fernando; Saini, Hari S.; Skinner, Luke C.; Mujtaba, Syed A. I.; Pawar, Vikas; Singh, Ravindra N.; Petrie, Cameron A.. |
| Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but were densely occupied by the populations of the Indus Civilization during the middle to late Holocene. The hydroclimatic conditions under which Indus urbanization took place, which was marked by a period of expanded settlement into the Thar Desert margins, remains poorly understood. We measured the isotopic values (delta O-18 and delta D) of gypsum hydration water in paleolake Karsandi sediments in northern Rajasthan to infer past changes in lake hydrology, which is sensitive to changing amounts of precipitation and evaporation. Our record reveals that relatively wet conditions prevailed at the northern edge of Rajasthan from similar to 5.1 +/- 0.2 ka BP,... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00434/54589/55970.pdf |
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