Chapter 1
* Reprinted with permission from Nayanjot Lahiri (ed.), 2000, The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization, Permanent Black, Delhi, pp. 239–250.
1. Since 1977, the writer is directing a multi-disciplinary research project on ‘Early Man and His Environment in North-West India’. Other members taking part in this project are S.N. Rajaguru (Deccan College, Pune), D.P. Agrawal (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad), R.P. Dhir (Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur), and R.J. Wasson and Gurdip Singh of the Australian National University, Canberra. Besides conducting extensive explorations in western Rajasthan and excavation at Jayal and Didwana in the district of Nagaur, the research team has examined the stratigraphy of all ...
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