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Gregory Possehl

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Gregory Louis Possehl was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, United States, and curator of the Asian Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He was involved in excavations of the Indus Valley civilization in India and Pakistan since 1964, and was an author of many books and articles on the Indus Civilization and related topics. He received his BA in anthropology from the University of Washington in 1964, his MA in anthropology from the University of Washington in 1967, and his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1974. He conducted major excavations in Gujarat , Rajasthan , and in January 2007, began an excavation at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Bat in the Sultanate of Oman.

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Gregory Possehl's Published Works

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The transformation of the Indus Civilization (1997) (129)
Indus Age: The Beginnings (1999) (109)
REVOLUTION IN THE URBAN REVOLUTION: The Emergence of Indus Urbanization (1990) (54)
Hunter-Gatherer/Agriculturalist Exchange in Prehistory: An Indian Example (1979) (50)
Climate and the Eclipse of the Ancient Cities of the Indus (1997) (39)
Harappan Civilization And Rojdi (1989) (36)
The Mohenjo‐daro Floods: A Reply1 (1967) (33)
Harappan Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective (1993) (33)
Ancient cities of the Indus (1979) (26)
Indus Civilization in Saurashtra (1980) (26)
The middle asian interaction sphere (2007) (25)
Harappan civilization: a recent perspective (1993) (23)
Studies in the Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology of South Asia (1984) (17)
Indus-Mesopotamian trade: The record in the Indus (2002) (17)
The early Iron age in South Asia (1999) (17)
The prehistory and palaeogeography of the great Indian desert: Bridget Allchin, Andrew Goudie, and Karunakara Hegde. Academic Press, London/New York/San Francisco, 1978, 370 pp., 73 figs., 85 tables, 12 plates. Bibliography, Index, £25/-, U.S. $48.90 (1980) (14)
Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in prehistoric India (2002) (14)
Cambay beadmaking: an ancient craft in Modern India (1981) (12)
Bronze Age maritime trade in the Indian Ocean: Harappan traits on the Oman peninsula (2013) (9)
The Flow of Power: Ancient Water Systems and Landscapes. Vernon L. Scarborough (2004) (7)
The Harappan Settlement of Gujarat (2007) (6)
Were There Commercial Communications between Prehistoric Harappans and African Populations (2012) (6)
Pre-Harappan cultures of India and the borderlands (1987) (5)
Buddhism: History and Diversity of a Great Tradition (1985) (5)
Kulli : an exploration of ancient civilization in Asia (1986) (4)
Excavations at Langhnaj: 1944‐63. Part I: Archaeology: HASMUKH DHIBAJLAL SANKALIA. Excavations at Langhnaj: 1944‐63. Part II: The Fauna: JULIET CLIJTTON‐BROCK. Excavations at Langhnaj: 194463. Part III: The Human Remains SOPHIE EHRHARDT and KENNETH A. R. KENNEDY (1967) (4)
Thoughts on The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia (2007) (3)
Die Indus Zivilisation (1987) (3)
Kulli: An Exploration of an Ancient Civilization in South Asia . By Gregory L. Possehl. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1986. xiv, 168 pp. Figures, Plates, Notes, Tables, Bibliography. $29.75. (1987) (3)
Excavations at Gilund: The Artifacts and Other Studies (2014) (3)
South Asian Archaeology Studies (1992) (2)
An Archaeological Adventurer in Afghanistan: Charles Masson (1990) (2)
Preliminary report on the second season of excavations at Rojdi:1983-84 (1985) (2)
W. Norman Brown (2008) (2)
Kulli: An Explanation of an Ancient Civilization in South Asia (1987) (2)
Excavations at Rojdi, 1992-93 (1993) (2)
Rojdi: The Investigation of a Prehistoric Town in India (1986) (2)
2. Excavation Methods and Stratigraphy (2014) (1)
Appendix 1: Radiocarbon Dates for Gilund (2014) (1)
India's Relations with Western Empires, 2300–600 BC (2012) (1)
A Handbook of Ancient Religions: The Indus Civilization (2007) (1)
A History of Indian Archaeology: From the Beginnings to 1947 (1990) (1)
Excavations at Gilund 1999–2005: The Artifacts and Other Studies (2014) (1)
3. Chalcolithic Structures and Features (2014) (1)
Synthesizing Gilund: A Summary and Discussion of Excavation Finds (2014) (1)
Alexander Burnes, A Voyage on the Indus (John Murray, London, 1834) reprinted by Oxford University Press: London, 1973, pp. 357, $ 8.50 per vol (1976) (0)
Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia (1908–1989) (1990) (0)
Appendix 2: List of Supervisors and Student Participants in the Gilund Excavations, 1999–2005 (2014) (0)
Archaeology:South Asian Archaeology. NORMAN HAMMOND, ed. Foreword by Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1975) (0)
Book Reviews : Alexander Burnes, A Voyage on the Indus (John Murray, London, 1834) reprinted by Oxford University Press: London, 1973, pp. 357, $ 8.50 per vol (1976) (0)
Coupled Points for Infinite-Dimensional Control Systems (1994) (0)
Excavations at Gilund (2014) (0)
South Asia, Archaeology of (2001) (0)
100 years of research: the approaching Museum Centennial (1983) (0)
G. L. Possehl's and M. H. Raval's Harappan Civilization and RojdiHarappan Civilization and Rojdi (1991) (0)
South Asian Archaeology 1973. Edited by J. E. Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw and J. J. M. Ubaghs. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. xi, 187 pp. Photographs, Maps, Figures, Tables, Notes, Index. Gld. 142 (1978) (0)
Europe (1982) (0)
Archeology:Journal of Intermountain Archeology, Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2. Rock Springs, Wyo.: (1983) (0)
Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan. — Compiled by Warwick Ball with the collaboration of Jean-Claude Gardin. (1983) (0)

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