Ancient irrigation and Buddhist history in central India: Optically stimulated luminescence dates and pollen sequences from the Sanchi dams

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 166-201

  Shaw, Julia ^a   Sutcliffe, John ^b   Lloyd Smith, Lindsay ^c   Schwenniger, Jean Luc ^d   Chauhan, M S ^e   Misra, O P ^b   Harvey, Emma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

Ancient India; Dams; Irrigation; OSL dating; Pollen analysis; Religious change; Rice agriculture; Spread of Buddhism; Theories of state

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DAM CONSTRUCTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALYNOLOGY; POLITICAL HISTORY; POLLEN; RELIGION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33947177204     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2007.0011     Document Type: Article

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