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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE MESOPOTAMIA, MELUHHA, AND THOSE IN BETWEEN
 Christopher P. Thornton INTRODUCTION T he Harappan Civilizatio ...

— Mesopotamia, Meluhha, and those in between — Figure 31.1 Map of the regions discussed in the text (courtesy of Gregory Possehl ...

have argued that the Mesopotamians traded “invisible exports” (sensuCrawford 1973 ) such as textiles or oils in exchange for met ...

Meluhhan sea traders were bringing perishable items from Mesopotamia to Dilmun and/or Magan in exchange for copper, diorite, chl ...

assemblages appear in the lowlands of the Indus Valley, such as the “Kot Dijian” wares of Sind or “Hakra” wares of the Punjab (M ...

Mesopotamia, Meluhha, and those in between Figure 31.3 Some classic indicators of the Harappan Civilization, including pottery ( ...

Jarrige 1973 ; Mughal 1990 ; Possehl 1997 b; Kenoyer 1998 : 173 – 178 ; Lahiri 2000 ), but the abandonment of the major cities a ...

societies of the Omani Peninsula underwent a dramatic transformation. For the first time, sizable settlements with permanent (of ...

they are not as well-fired, they are hand made, and they often have much coarser fabrics (Frifelt 1970 , 1975 ; Thornton pers. o ...

the Omani Peninsula at this time. Second, ceramics such as the iconic black-slipped storage jars (BSJs) from the greater Indus V ...

Christopher P. Thornton 5 cm Figure 31.6 Examples o f Harappan-style sherds from Bat in northern Oman: (a) Black-on-Red painted, ...

Mesopotamia, Meluhha, and those in between Bitumen in worked shells Figure 31.7 Harappan-related material from one compound at R ...

seafaring regions became wealthier as a result, leading to significant changes in Dilmun (e.g., the rise of the Barbar Culture w ...

Mesopotamia, Meluhha, and those in between Figure 31.8 Examples of third millennium southeastern Iranian pottery from the site o ...

Asian Interaction Sphere” following Caldwell ( 1964 ) and Lamberg-Karlovsky and Tosi ( 1973 ). Dilmun, Magan, and Marhashi were ...

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