Article ID: CBB946704894

Different strategies in Indus agriculture: the goals and outcomes of farming choices (2023)

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Climate change is often cited in the ‘collapse’ of complex societies and linked to agricultural resilience or lack thereof. In this article, the authors consider how demand affected agricultural strategies as farmers navigated the transformations of the Late Harappan phase (c. 1900–1700 BC) of the Indus tradition. Through the modelling of monocropping/multicropping, low/high yield crops, and supply-driven versus flexible production, various economic, environmental and social demands are explored with reference to the choices of farmers and how these decisions differed regionally, and how they impacted the wider Late Harappan de-urbanisation process. The authors’ archaeobotanical perspective on the Indus contributes to wider understanding of how urban societies and their agricultural bases change over time.

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Authors & Contributors
Boivin, Nicole
Brassley, Paul
Clarke, David D.
Effland, Anne B. W.
Huston, James L.
Liu, Xinyi
Journals
Antiquity
Agricultural History
International Journal of African Historical Studies
Social Science History
Publishers
Boydell Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Louisiana State University Press
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Princeton University Press
Rowman & Littlefield
Concepts
Agriculture
Farmers
Agribusiness
Family
Farms
Climate and climatology
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Ancient
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
India
Mexico
California (U.S.)
Wisconsin (U.S.)
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