Intensified summer monsoon and the urbanization of Indus Civilization in northwest India

• Main Authors: Dixit, Yama, Hodell, David A., Giesche, Alena, Tandon, Sampat K., Gázquez, Fernando, Saini, Hari S., Skinner, Luke C., Mujtaba, Syed A. I., Pawar, Vikas, Singh, Ravindra N., Petrie, Cameron A.
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Climate Change; Indus Urbanism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87590; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45459
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large populations, but were densely occupied by the populations of the Indus Civilization during the middle to late Holocene. The hydroclimatic conditions under which Indus urbanization took place, which was marked by a period...