Sad news about Greg Possehl, with his bibliography

[rajam]

Truly sad. When I was teaching at Penn, Greg was one of the strong  
supporters of the Tamil program.

Regards,
Rajam

On Oct 10, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Asko Parpola wrote:

> From: "Sinopoli, Carla" <sinopoli at umich.edu> Date: October 9, 2011  
> 11:56: 13 AM CDT Subject: Sad news: Greg Possehl. Dear all, You may  
> have already heard this news, but I just learned that Greg passed  
> away last night -- from a heart attack and/or stroke. A sad loss  
> for our South Asian community, for Greg’s many friends, and for all  
> of us he has mentored and supported over the years. Regards, Carla
>
> I HAVE RECEIVED THIS SAD NEWS WHILE IN OMAN, WORKING TO ASSIST THE  
> MINISTRY OF HERITAGE AND CULTURE TO DEVELOP AND EXPAND THE  
> ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE SULTANATE.I HAD BROUGHT GREG HERE IN 2004 IN  
> RELATION TO THE MAGAN BOAT PROJECT, AND WE DECIDED HE SHOULD  
> ESTABLISH A PROJECT ON THIS SIDE OF THE ARABIAN SEA AS WELL: A NEW  
> ADVENTURE TO SHARE, ALONG WITH SERGE CLEUZIOU. GIVEN HIS HIGHEST  
> CREDENTIALS THE MINISTRY OFFERED HIM TO EXPLORE BAT, THE MOST  
> IMPORTANT SITE IN THE HEARTLAND OF OMAN,  LISTED IN THE UNESCO  
> WORLD HERITAGE....... WHAT TO DO NOW. I HOPE CHRIS, CHARLOTTE AND  
> OTHERS WILL CONTINUE, WHILE I KEEP ON TRACKING ON A LONESOME  
> PATH..... SOMETIME I WISH I BELIEVE IN SOMETHING BEYOND DEATH, BUT  
> I CAN TRUST ONLY THE MEMORY OF OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. GREG WILL LIVE  
> THERE, WITH MANY OTHER GOOD MEN AND WOMEN. MAURIZIO TOSI
>
> --------------------------
>
> After the above sad news reached me this morning, I have been  
> working on the following provisional bibliography of my respected  
> colleague and friend, offered here in appreciation of his lifework  
> devoted to the study of the Indus Civilization. I am sending this  
> to the INDOLOGY and RISA -lists and to colleagues who may not be  
> receiving these lists.
>
> Asko Parpola
>
> GREGORY L. POSSEHL (23? July 1941 - 8 or 9 Oct 2011) was Professor  
> emeritus of Archaeology at the Department of Anthropology,  
> University of Pennsylvania, and Curator of the Asian Section,  
> University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1967. The Mohenjo-daro floods: A reply.  
> American Anthropologist 69: 32-40.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1974. Variation and change in the Indus  
> Civilization: A study of prehistoric Gujarat with special reference  
> to the post-urban Harappan. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, The  
> University of Chicago. x, 302 pp., ill. [Revised version published  
> in 1980 as "Indus Civilization in Saurashtra".]
>
> Dhavalikar, M. K., and Gregory L. Possehl, 1974. Subsistence  
> pattern of an early farming community of western India. Puratattva  
> (Bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society) 7: 39-46.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1975. The chronology of gabarbands and palas  
> in western South Asia. Expedition 17 (2): 33-37.
>
> Kennedy, Kenneth A.R., and Gregory L. Possehl (eds.), 1976.   
> Ecological backgrounds of South Asian prehistory. Symposium  
> convened at the seventy-second annual meeting of the American  
> Anthropological Association, December 2, 1973, New Orleans. (South  
> Asia Occasional Papers and Theses, 4.) Ithaca NY: South Asia  
> Program, Cornell University. 28 cm, vi, 236 pp., ill., maps. Pb
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1976. Lothal: A gateway settlement of the  
> Harappan Civilization. Pp. 198-131 in: Kennedy, Kenneth A. R., and  
> Gregory L. Possehl (eds.), Ecological backgrounds of South Asian  
> prehistory. (South Asia Occasional Papers and Theses, 4.) Ithaca:  
> South Asia Program, Cornell University. Reprinted, pp. 212-218 in:  
> Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.) 1979. Ancient cities of the Indus. New  
> Delhi.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1977. The end of a state and continuity of a  
> tradition: A discussion of the Late Harappan. Pp. 234-254 in: Fox,  
> Richard G. (ed.), Realm and region in traditional India. New Delhi:  
> Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.) 1979. ANCIENT CITIES OF THE INDUS. Durham  
> NC: Carolina Academic Press & New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House  
> Pvt. Ltd. 27 cm, xv, 422 pp., 8 pl., ill. Hb ISBN 0890890935 &  
> 0-7069-0781-7.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1979. Introduction. Pp.  vii-xv in: Possehl,  
> Gregory L. (ed.), Ancient cities of the Indus.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1979. Radiocarbon dates for the Indus  
> Civilization and related sites. Pp. 358-360 in: Possehl, Gregory L.  
> (ed.), Ancient cities of the Indus.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1979. An extensive bibliography of the Indus  
> Civilization including references cited in the text. Pp. 361-422  
> in: Possehl, Gregory L., 1979. (Ed.) Ancient cities of the Indus.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1979. Pastoral nomadism in the Indus  
> Civilization: An hypothesis. Pp. 537-551 in: Taddei, Maurizio  
> (ed.), South Asian Archaeology 1977, vol. I. (Istituto  
> Universitario Orientale, Seminario di Studi Asiatici, Series minor,  
> 6: I.) Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, Seminario di Studi  
> Asiatici.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., and Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, 1979. Hunter- 
> gatherer/agriculturalist exchange in prehistory: An Indian example.  
> Current Anthropology 20 (3): 592-593.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1980. INDUS CIVILIZATION IN SAURASHTRA. New  
> Delhi: Published on behalf of Indian Archaeological Society by B.R.  
> Publishing Corporation. 29 cm, xvi, 264 pp., ill., maps. Hb  
> [Revised version of the author's Ph.D. dissertation, The University  
> of Chicago, 1974.]
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1981. Cambay bead-making: An ancient craft in  
> modern India. Expedition 23 (4): 39-46.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.) 1982. HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION: A  
> CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.  
> Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies; Warminster:  
> Aris & Phillips in cooperation with American Institute of Indian  
> Studies. 28 cm xiii, 440 pp., 93 pl., maps. Hb
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1982. The Harappan Civilization: A  
> contemporary perspective. Pp. 15-28 in:  Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.),  
> Harappan Civilization: A contemporary perspective.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1982. Discovering ancient India's earliest  
> cities: The first phase of research. Pp. 405-413 in:  Possehl,  
> Gregory L. (ed.), Harappan Civilization: A contemporary perspective.
>
> Possehl. Gregory L., 1984. Archaeological terminology and the  
> Harappan Civilization. Pp. 27-36 in: Lal, B.B., and S.P. Gupta  
> (eds.), Frontiers of the Indus Civilization: Sir Mortimer Wheeler  
> Commemoration Volume. New Delhi: Indian Archaeological Society.
>
> Kennedy, Kenneth A. R., and Gregory L. Possehl (eds.) 1984. STUDIES  
> IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALAEOANTHROPOLOGY OF SOUTH ASIA.  New  
> Delhi:  Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American  
> Institute of Indian Studies. 25 cm, viii, 144 pp., ill., maps.
>
> Lyons, Elizabeth, and Heather Peters, 1985. Buddhism: History and  
> diversity of a great tradition. With contributions by Chang Ch'eng- 
> mei & Gregory L. Possehl. Philadelphia: University Museum,  
> University of Pennsylvania. 28 cm, 64 pp., ill., map. ISBN 0934718768.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1986. KULLI: AN EXPLORATION OF AN ANCIENT  
> CIVILIZATION IN SOUTH ASIA. (Centers of Civilization, 1.) Durham,  
> NC: Carolina Academic Press. 29 cm, viii, 168 pp., ill. Hb ISBN  
> 0890891737.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1986. African millets in South Asian  
> prehistory. Pp. 237-256 in: Jerome Jacobson (ed.), Studies in the  
> archaeology of India and Pakistan. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH  
> Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1987-1988. Indian Archaeology, A Review: Guide  
> to excavated sites 1953-54 through 1983-84. Puratattva (Bulletin of  
> the Indian Archaeological Society) 18: 113-172.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1989. RADIOCARBON DATES FOR SOUTH ASIAN  
> ARCHAEOLOGY.  (Occasional publication of the Asian Section.)  
> Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. 28 cm.  
> 60 pp.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., and M. H. Raval, 1989. HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION  
> AND ROJDI. With contributions from Y. M. Chitalwala et al. Leiden  
> and New York: E. J. Brill; New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.  
> Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies. 29 cm, xv, 197  
> pp., 46 pl., 80 ill., 5 maps. ISBN 9004091572 & 81-204-0404-1.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1990. Revolution in the urban revolution: The  
> emergence of Indus urbanization. Annual Review of Anthropology 19:  
> 261-282.
>
> Possehl. Gregory L., 1990. An archaeological adventurer in  
> Afghanistan: Charles Masson. South Asian Studies 6: 111-124.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., and Charles Frank Herman, 1990. The Sorath  
> Harappan: A new regional manifestation of the Indus urban phase.  
> Pp. 295-319 in: Taddei, Maurizio, with P. Callieri (ed.), South  
> Asian Archaeology 1987, vol. I.  (Serie Orientale Roma 66: I.)  
> Roma: Istituto per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente.
>
> Rissman, Paul C., and Y. M. Chitalwala, 1990. Harappan Civilization  
> and Oriyo Timbo. With contributions from Gregory L. Possehl et al.  
> New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American  
> Institute of Indian Studies. 25 cm, xi, 155 pp., ill. ISBN  
> 81-204-0484-X.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., and Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, 1990. Hasmukh  
> Dhirajlal Sankalia (1908-1989). American Anthropologist 92: 1006-1010.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., and M.H. Raval, 1991. A report on the  
> excavations at Babar Kot: 1990-91. S.l. 16 p.  Submitted to the ASI.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., and Paul C. Rissman, 1992. The chronology of  
> prehistoric India: From earliest times to the Iron Age. Pp. 465-490  
> in vol. I and pp. 447-474 (Fig. 1-13, tables 1-14 and References)  
> in vol. II of: Ehrich, Robert W. (ed.), Chronologies in Old World  
> archaeology, 3rd ed.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1992. The Harappan cultural mosaic: Ecology  
> revisited. Pp. 237-244 in vol. I of: Jarrige, Catherine (ed.),  
> South Asian Archaeology 1989. (Monographs in World Archaeology,  
> 14.) Madison WI: Prehistory Press.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1992. The Harappan Civilization in Gujarat:  
> The Sorath and Sindhi Harappans. The Eastern Anthropologist 45  
> (1-2): 117-154.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1992. A short history of archaeological  
> discovery at Harappa. In: Meadow 1992a: 5-11.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.) 1992. SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY STUDIES.  
> New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American  
> Institute of Indian Studies; New York: International Science  
> Publisher (1993). 24 cm, x, 266 pp., ill., map. Hb ISBN  
> 81-204-0734-2 & 1881570177.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1992. Walter Ashlin Fairservis, Jr. Pp. 1-12  
> in: Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.), South Asian archaeology studies.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1992. Toymakers and trade: A notice of early  
> twentieth century commerce between Philadelphia and India. Pp.  
> 261-266 in: Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.), South Asian archaeology  
> studies.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.) 1993. HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION: A RECENT  
> PERSPECTIVE. 2nd revised ed. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.  
> Pvt. Ltd. an American Institute of Indian Studies. 28 cm, xv, 595  
> pp., 120 pl., maps, index. Hb ISBN 81-204-0779-2.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1993. The date of Indus urbanization: A  
> proposed chronology for the Pre-Urban and Urban Harappan phases.  
> Pp. 231-249 in: Gail, Adalbert J., and G. R. Mevissen (eds.), South  
> Asian Archaeology 1991. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., and Maurizio Tosi (eds.) 1993. HARAPPAN  
> STUDIES, Vol. 1. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.  
> 71 pp. Pb INR 395. ISBN 81-204-0819-5.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1994. The Indus Civilisation. Man and  
> Environment 19 (1-2): 103-113.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1994. Of men. Pp. 179-186 in: Kenoyer,  
> Jonathan Mark (ed.), From Sumer to Meluhha: Contributions to the  
> archaeology of South and West Asia in memory of George F. Dales,  
> Jr. (Wisconsin Archaeological Reports, 3.) Madison, WI: Department  
> of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1994. RADIOMETRIC DATES FOR SOUTH ASIAN  
> ARCHAEOLOGY.  (An occasional publication of the Asia Section.)  
> Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum. 122 pp.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., and Dinker P. Mehta, 1994. Excavations at  
> Rojdi, 1992-93. Pp. 603-614 in:   Parpola, Asko, and Petteri  
> Koskikallio (eds.), South Asian Archaeology 1993, vol. II. (Annales  
> Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae B 271: II.) Helsinki: Suomalainen  
> Tiedeakatemia.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1996. Meluhha. Pp. 133-208 in: Reade, Julian  
> (ed.), The Indian Ocean in antiquity.  London: Kegan Paul  
> International in association with the British Museum.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1996. Climate and the eclipse of the ancient  
> cities of the Indus. Pp. 193-244 in: Dalfes, H. Nüzhet, George  
> Kukla and Harvey Weiss (eds.), Third millennium BC climate change  
> and Old World collapse. (NATO ASI, Series 1: Global Environment  
> Change, vol. 49.) Berlin & New York: Springer.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1996. INDUS AGE: THE WRITING SYSTEM.  
> Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; New Delhi: Oxford  
> IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. 29 cm, xiv, 244 pp., 16 pl. Hb  ISBN  
> 0-8122-3345-X & 81-204-1083-1.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1997.  The transformation of the Indus  
> Civilization.  Journal of World Prehistory 11 (4): 425-472.  
> Reprinted in Man and Environment 24 (2), 1999: 1-33.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1997. The date of the Surkotada cemetery: A  
> reassessment in light of recent archaeological work in Gujarat. Pp.  
> 81-87 in: Joshi, Jagat Pati (ed.), Facets of Indian Civilization:  
> Recent perspectives. Essays in honour of Professor B. B. Lal. New  
> Delhi: Aryan Books International.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1997. Seafaring merchants of Meluhha. Pp.  
> 87-100 in: Allchin, Bridget (ed.), South Asian Archaeology 1995.  
> Cambridge: Ancient India and Iran Trust; New Delhi: Oxford & IBH  
> Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1997-1998. An Harappan outpost on the Amu  
> Darya: Shortughai, Why was it there? Indologica Taurinensia 23-24:  
> 57-70, 1 fig.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1998. Sociocultural complexity without the  
> state: The Indus Civilization. Pp. 261-291 in: Feinman, Gary M.,  
> and Joyce Marcus (eds.), The archaic states. Santa Fe, NM: School  
> of American Research.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1998. Did the Sarasvati ever flow to the sea?  
> Pp. 339-354 in: Philips, C. S., D. T. Potts and S. Searight (eds.),  
> Arabia and its neighbours: Essays on prehistorical and historical  
> developments presented in honour of Beatric de Cardi. Brussels:  
> Brepols.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1998. Introduction of African millets to the  
> Indian subcontinent. Pp. 107-121 in: Pendergast, H. D. V., N. L.,  
> Etkin, D. R. Harris and P. J. Houghton (eds.), Plants for food and  
> medicine. Kew: The Royal Botanic Gardens.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 1999. INDUS AGE: THE BEGINNINGS. Philadelphia:  
> University of Pennsylvania Press; New Delhi: Oxford & IBH  
> Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. 29 cm, xxxvi, 1063 pp., 580 b/w ill. Hb  
> ISBN 0-8122-3417-0.
> Reviewed: Asko Parpola, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 3  
> Dec 1999, p. 24.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., and Praveena Gullapalli, 1999. The Early Iron  
> Age in South Asia. Pp. 153-175 in: Pigott, Vincent C. (ed.), The  
> archaeometallurgy of the Asian Old World.  (MASCA Research Papers  
> in Science and Archaeology, University Museum Monograph, volume  
> 16.) Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2000. Harappan beginnings. Pp. 99-112 in:  
> Lamberg-Karlovsky, Martha (ed.), The breakout: The origins of  
> civilization.  (Peabody Museum Monographs, 9.) Cambridge, MA:  
> Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2000-2001. The Early Harapopan phase. Bulletin  
> of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute 60-61:  
> 227-241, 10 figs.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2000-2001. The Mature Harapopan phase.  
> Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute  
> 60-61: 243-251, 2 figs.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2002. THE INDUS CIVILIZATION: A CONTEMPORARY  
> PERSPECTIVE.  Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. 29 cm, xi, 276 pp.,  
> ill., maps. Pb ISBN 0-7591-0172-8. Hb ISBN 0-7591-0171-X.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2002. Fifty years of Harappan archaeology: The  
> study of the Indus Civilization since Indian independence. Pp. 1-46  
> in: Settar, S., and Ravi Korisettar (eds.), Protohistory:  
> Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization. (Indian archaeology in  
> retrospect, vol. II.) New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical  
> Research & Manohar.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2002. Archaeology of the Harappan  
> Civilization: An annotated list of excavations and surveys. Pp.  
> 421-482 in: Settar, S., and Ravi Korisettar (eds.) Protohistory:  
> Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization. (Indian archaeology in  
> retrospect, vol. II.) New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical  
> Research & Manohar.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2002. Indus-Mesopotamian trade: The record in  
> the Indus. Iranica Antiqua 37: 322-340.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2003. The Indus Civilization: An introduction  
> to environment, subsistence, and cultural history. Pp. 1-20 in:  
> Weber, Steven A., and William R. Belcher (eds.), Indus  
> ethnobiology: New perspectives from the field. Lanham MD: Lexington  
> Books.
>
> Shinde, V., G. L. Possehl and M. Ameri, 2005. Excavations at Gilund  
> 2001-2003: The seal impressions and other finds. Pp. 159-169 in:  
> Franke-Vogt, Ute, & Hans-Joachim Weisshaar (eds.), South Asian  
> Archaeology 2003. (Forschungen zur Archäologie aussereuropäischer  
> Kulturen, 1.) Aachen: Linden Soft Verlag e. K.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2007. The Indus Civilization. Chapter 9 in:  
> Hinnells, John R. (ed.), Handbook of ancient religions. Cambridge:  
> Cambridge University Press.
>
> Joshi, Jagat Pati, 2008. Harappan architecture and civil  
> engineering. Foreword by Gregory L. Possehl. (Infinity Foundation  
> series.) New Delhi: Rupa & Co., in association with Infinity  
> Foundation. ISBN 978-81-291-1183-8.
>
> Possehl, Gregory L., 2010. Review of: Parpola, Asko, B. M. Pande  
> and Petteri Koskikallio (eds.), 2010. Corpus of Indus Seals and  
> Inscriptions, Volume 3: New material, untraced objects, and  
> collections outside India and Pakistan. Part 1: Mohenjo-daro and  
> Harappa, in collaboration with Richard H. Meadow and J. Mark  
> Kenoyer. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Humaniora 359;  
> Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 96.) Helsinki:  
> Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. Journal of the American Oriental Society  
> 130 (2).