Toward a political ecology in early south India: Preliminary considerations of the sociopolitics of land and animal use in the southern Deccan, neolithic through Early Historic periods

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-35

  Bauer, Andrew M ^a   Johansen, Peter G ^a   Bauer, Radhika L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Landscapes; Monumentality; Political ecology; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL CHANGE; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IRON AGE; LAND USE; NEOLITHIC; SOCIAL HISTORY;

ASIA; DECCAN; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33947149676     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2007.0001     Document Type: Article

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