干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Revisiting the contemporaneity of a mighty river and the Harappans: Archaeological, stratigraphic and chronometric constraints

Arid

DOI	10.1016/j.quageo.2018.05.002
	Revisiting the contemporaneity of a mighty river and the Harappans: Archaeological, stratigraphic and chronometric constraints
	Dave, Aditi Krishna 1,2; Courty, Marie-Agnes 3; Fitzsimmons, Kathryn E.2; Singhvi, Ashok Kumar 1
通讯作者	Dave, Aditi Krishna
来源期刊	QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY
ISSN	1871-1014
EISSN	1878-0350
出版年	2019
卷号	49 页码:230-235
英文摘要	The role of major northwestern Indian rivers in sustaining the Harappan civilisation has been a much-debated topic in Indian archaeology. Reconstruction of palaeo-river courses using remote sensing images and their association with the mighty rivers (viz. Sarasvati and Drishadvati) mentioned in ancient Indian literature, has long been contested. The relationship of these rivers to the Ghaggar and Chautang channels, believed to be the former course of the glacially fed Sutlej and Yamuna rivers respectively, has also been debated. A mighty river of glacial origin has been hypothesised to have sustained the Harappan civilisation, and yet the spatial and temporal associations between palaeo-river courses and the Harappans are poorly understood. We provide new quartz optically stimulated luminescence dates from stratigraphically controlled samples from the palaeo-river bed and adjacent floodplain of the Chautang River near Hissar in Haryana, to elucidate the timing of glacially derived fluvial activity and examine its synchronicity with the Harappan cultures. Our results disprove the proposed link between ancient settlements and large rivers from the Himalayas and indicate that the major palaeo-fluvial system traversing through this region ceased long before the establishment of the Harappan civilisation. These results are further corroborated through a review of archaeological data to assess the spatial and temporal variation in the abundance of Harappan sites along a perennial and ephemeral riverine corridor. This synthesis of archaeological data also urges caution over the linear association of the number of ancient settlements with the strength of rivers.
英文关键词	Sarasvati river Drishadvati river Harappan civilisation Ghaggar river Chautang river Quartz OSL
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	India ; Germany ; France
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000454376300036
WOS关键词	THAR DESERT ; SARASWATI RIVER ; SUMMER MONSOON ; LUMINESCENCE ; SEDIMENTS ; SINGLE ; QUARTZ
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/218209
作者单位	1.Phys Res Lab, Ahmadabad 380009, Gujarat, India; 2.Max Planck Inst Chem, Res Grp Terr Palaeoclimates, Hahn Meitner Weg 1, D-55128 Mainz, Germany; 3.CNRS, PROMES, UPR 8521, Procedes Mat & Energie Solaire Tecnosud, F-66100 Perpignan, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dave, Aditi Krishna,Courty, Marie-Agnes,Fitzsimmons, Kathryn E.,et al. Revisiting the contemporaneity of a mighty river and the Harappans: Archaeological, stratigraphic and chronometric constraints[J],2019,49:230-235.
APA	Dave, Aditi Krishna,Courty, Marie-Agnes,Fitzsimmons, Kathryn E.,&Singhvi, Ashok Kumar.(2019).Revisiting the contemporaneity of a mighty river and the Harappans: Archaeological, stratigraphic and chronometric constraints.QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY,49,230-235.
MLA	Dave, Aditi Krishna,et al."Revisiting the contemporaneity of a mighty river and the Harappans: Archaeological, stratigraphic and chronometric constraints".QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY 49(2019):230-235.