The Archaeology of Afghanistan : : From Earliest Times to the Timurid Period: New Edition / / Norman Hammond, Raymond Allchin, Warwick Ball.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Allchin, Raymond ,; Ball, Warwick,; Hammond, Norman,
• MitwirkendeR: Allchin, Raymond,; Ball, Warwick,; Bordeaux, Olivier,; Bowlby, Sophia R.,; Davis, Richard S.,; Fischer, Klaus,; Francfort, Henri-Paul,; Glenn, Simon,; Hammond, Norman,; Lyonnet, Bertille,; Mac Dowall, David W.,; Petrie, Cameron A.,; Rahimi, Mohammad Fahim,; Shaffer, Jim G.,; Sims-Williams, Nicholas,; Taddei, Maurizio,; White, Kevin H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (752 p.) :; 36 B/W illustrations 353 colour illustrations 128 B/W line art

An updated and revised edition of a classic text on the archaeology of AfghanistanAfghanistan is at the cultural crossroads of Asia, where the great civilisations of Mesopotamia and Iran, South Asia and Central Asia overlapped and sometimes conflicted. Its landscape embraces environments from the hi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Analytical Table of Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Note on Transliteration
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction to the First Edition
• Introduction to the New Edition
• CHAPTER 1 The Geographical Background
• CHAPTER 2 The Palaeolithic
• CHAPTER 3 The Development of the Oxus Civilisation North of the Hindu Kush
• CHAPTER 4 The Development of a ‘Helmand Civilisation’ South of the Hindu Kush
• CHAPTER 5 The Iron Age, Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods
• CHAPTER 6 From the Kushans to the Shahis
• CHAPTER 7 From the Rise of Islam to the Mongol Invasion
• CHAPTER 8 From the Mongols to the Mughals
• CHAPTER 9 Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Copyright Acknowledgements
• Index