Sad news about Greg Possehl, with his bibliography

Mon Oct 10 12:58:01 UTC 2011

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

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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 Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, The  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).