This much amended doctoral dissertation examines the economic role and importance of millet crops during the Harappan Phase in Gujarat. The author hypothesizes that millet cultivation may have supplemented existing non-farming subsistence practices and played a role in the context of changing subsistence economies and socio-political systems. His study employs ethnographic studies of crop processing; paleoethnobotany; and carbon isotope analysis. Results were integrated with research on the role of wild and domestic fodder in pastoralist economies to provide an overall interpretation of plant cultivation, usage, and overall subsistence orientation. Lacks a subject index. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
