Agrawal DP. 1982a. The Indian Bronze Age cultures and their metal technology. In Advances in World Archaeology, Volume 1, ed. F Wednforf, AE Close, pp. 213-64. New York: Academic Press

Agrawal DP. 1982b. The Archaeology of India. Copenhagen

Agrawal DP. 1992. Man and Environment in India through Ages. New Dehli: Books and Books

Agrawal DP, Sood RK. 1982. Ecological factors and the Harappan Civilisation. In Harappan Civilization, A Contemporary Perspective, ed. GL Possehl, pp. 223-31. Warminster: Aris & Phillips

Allchin B, Allchin R. 1982. The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Allchin B, Allchin R. 1997. Origins of a Civilization. The Prehistory and Early Archaeology of South Asia. New Dehli: Penguin Books India

Alley RB, Mayewski PA, Sowers T, Stuiver M, Taylor KC, Clark PU. 1997. Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago. Geology 25: 483-6

Bentaleb I, Fontugne M, Descolas-Gros C. 1997. Organic carbon isotopic composition of phytoplankton and sea-surface pCO2 reconstructions in the southern Indian Ocean ... Oceanographic Literature Review

Blatter E, Hallberg F. 1918-21. The flora of the Indian desert (Jodhpur and Jaisalmer). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 26: 218-246, 525-551, 811-818; 27: 40-47, 270-279, 506-519

Blunier T, Chappellaz J, Schwander J, Stauffer B and Raynaud D. 1995. Variations in the atmospheric methane concentration during the Holocene epoch. Nature 374: 46–49.

Bottema S. 1975. The interpretation of pollen spectra from prehistoric settlements (with special attention to Liguliflorae). Palaeohistoria 17: 17-36

Bourke RM. 2000. The impact of the 1997 drought and frosts Papua New Guinea. In El Niño: history and crisis, ed. RH Grove, J Chappell, pp. 149-70. Cambridge: The White Horse Press

Bowler JM, Jones R, Zhisheng A. 1995. Climate change in the western Pacific: Its implications for green house scenarious. In Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology of India, ed. S Wadia, R Korisettar, VS Kale, pp. 1-21. Bangalore: Geological Society of India

Bronk Ramsey C. 1995. Radiocarbon Calibration and Analysis of Stratigraphy: The OxCal Program. Radiocarbon 37(2): 425-430

Bronk Ramsey C., 2001, Development of the Radiocarbon Program OxCal. Radiocarbon 43(2A): 355-363

Bryson RA, Swain AM. 1981. Holocene variations of the monsoon rainfall in Rajasthan. Quaternary Research 16: 135-45

Chahuan MS. 1996. Origin and history of tropical deciduous Sal (Shorea robusta Gaertn.) forests in Madhya Pradesh, India. The Palaeobotanist 43: 89-101

Chahuan MS. 2000. Pollen evidence of late-Quaternary vegetation and climate change in Northeastern Madhya Pradesh, India. Palaeobotanist 49: 491-500

Chahuan MS. 2002. Holocene vegetation and climatic changes in southeastern Madhya Pradesh, India. Current Science 83: 1444-5

Chakrabarti DK. 1995. The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities. Dehli: Oxford University Press

Chattopaddaya U. 2002. Researches in archaeozoology of the Holocene period (including the Harappan Tradition in India and Pakistan). In Indian Archaeology in Retrospect, ed. S Settar, R Korisettar, pp. 365-422. Dehli: Manohar

Chawla S, Dhir RP, Singhvi AK. 1992. Thermoluminescence chronology of sand profiles in the Thar Desert and their implications. Quaternary Science Reviews 11: 25-32

Courty MA, Federoff N. 1985. Micromorphology of recent and buried soils in a semi-arid region of North-West India. Geoderma 35: 285-332

Courty MA, Goldberg P, MacPhail R. 1989. Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Cullen HM, deMenocal PB, Hemming S, Hemming G, Brown FH, et al. 2000. Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire: Evidence from the deep sea. Geology 28: 379-82

Dales GF. 1986. Some fresh approaches to old problems in Harappan archaeology. In Studies in the Archaeology of India and Pakistan, ed. J Jacobson, pp. 117-36. Dehli: Oxford and IBH

Dalfes HN, Kukla G, Weiss H, eds. 1996. Third Millennium BC Climate Changes and Old World Collapse, Vols. 149. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag

deMenocal PB. 2001. Cultural responses to climate change during the late Holocene. Science 292: 667-73

Deotare BC, Kajale MD. 1996. Qauternary pollen analysis and palaeoenvironmental studies on the salt basins at Pachpadra and Thob, Western Rajasthan, India: Preliminary obsaervations. Man and Environment 21: 24-31

Deotare BC, Kajale MD, Kshirsaghar AA, Rajaguru SN. 1998. Geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental studies around Bap-Malar Playa, district Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Current Science 75: 316-20

Deotare BC, Kajale MD, Rajaguru SN, Basavaiah N. 2004a. Late Quaternary geomorphology, palynology and magnetic susceptibility of playas in western margin of the Indian Thar Desert. Journal of the Indian Geophysical Union 8: 15-25

Deotare BC, Kajale MD, Rajaguru SN, Kusumgar S, Jull AJT, Donahue JD. 2004b. Palaeoenvironmental history of Bap-Malar and Kanod playas of western Rajasthan, Thar Desert. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences) 113(3): 403-425

Dikshit KN. 1984. Late Harappa in northern India. In Frontiers of the Indus Civilization, ed. BB Lal, SP Gupta, pp. 253-69. Dehli: Books and Books

Enzel Y, Ely L, Mishra S, Ramesh R, Amit R, et al. 1999. High resolution Holocene environmental changes in the Thar Desert, northwestern India. Science 284: 125-7

Flam L. 1986. Recent explorations in Sind: paleogeography, regional ecology and prehistoric settlement patterns. In Studies in the Archaeology of India and Pakistan, ed. J Jacobson, pp. 65-89. Dehli: Oxford & IBH and the American Institute of Indian Studies

Fuller DQ. 1998. Palaeoecology of the Wadi Muqaddam: a preliminary report on plant and animal remains from the Omdurman-Gabolab survey 1997. Sudan and Nubia 2: 52-60

Fuller DQ. 2002. Fifty years of archaeobotanical studies in India: Laying a solid foundation. In Indian Archaeology in Retrospect, Vol. III. Archaeology and Interactive Disciplines, ed. S Settar, R Korisettar, pp. 247-363. New Delhi: Manohar

Fuller DQ. 2003. An Agricultural Perspective on Dravidian Historical Linguistics: Archaeological Crop Packages, Livestock and Dravidian Crop Vocabulary. In Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis, ed. P Bellwood, C Renfrew, pp. 191-213. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Fuller DQ, Madella M. 2001. Issues in Harappan archaeobotany: Retrospect and prospect. In Indian Archaeology in Retrospect, Vol. II. Protohistory, ed. S Settar, R Korisettar, pp. 317-90. New Delhi: Manohar

Gasse F. 2000. Hydrological changes in the African tropics since the last glacial maximum. Quaternary Science Review 19: 189-211

Grove AT. 1993. Africa's climate in the Holocene. In The Archaeology of Africa. Food, Metals and Towns, ed. T Shaw, P Sinclair, B Andah, A Okpoko, pp. 32-42. London: Routledge

Haberle SG, David B. 2004. Climates of change: Human dimensions of Holocene environmental change in low latitudes of the PEPII transect. Quaternary International 118-119: 165-79

Hassan FA. 1988. The predynastic of Egypt. Journal of World Prehistory 2: 135-85

Hassan FA. 1997a. Holocenes palaeoclimates of Africa. African Archaeological Review 14: 213-30

Hassan FA. 1997b. Nile floods and political disorder in early Egypt. In Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse, ed. HN Dalfes, G Kukla, H Weiss, pp. 1-23. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag

Haynes CV, Mead AR. 1987. Radiocarbon dating and paleoclimatic significance of subfossil Limicolaria in northwestern Sudan. Quaternary Research 28: 86-99

Haynes CV, Eyles CH, Pavlish LA, Ritchie JC, Rybak M. 1989. Holocene palaeoecology of the eastern Sahara: Selima Oasis. Quaternary Science Reviews 8: 109-36

Hsu KJ, Perry CA. 2002. Geophysical, archaeological, and historical evidence

support a solar-output model for climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97: 12433-8

Jolley D, Harrison SP, Damnati B, Bonnefille R. 1998. Simulated climate and biomes of Africa during the Late Quaternary: comparison with pollen and lake status data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17: 629-57

Kajale MD. 1996. Palaeobotanical investigations in Balathal: Preliminary results. Man and Environment 21: 98-103

Kajale MD, Deotare BC. 1997. Late Quaternary environmental studies on salt lakes in western Rajasthan, India: A summarised view. Journal of Quaternary Science 12: 405-12

Kenoyer JM. 1998. Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. Karachi: Oxford University Press

Lal BB. 1971. Perhaps the earliest ploughed field in the world. Puratattva 4: 1-3

Lézine A-M, Saliège J-F, Robert C, Wertz F, Inizian M-L. 1998. Holocene lakes from Ramlat as-Sab'atayn (Yemen) illustrate the impact of monsoon activity in southern Arabia. Quaternary Research 50: 290-9

Madella M. 2003. Investigating agriculture and environment in South Asia: Present and future contributions from opal phytoliths. In Indus Ethnobiology - New Perspectives from the Field, ed. SA Weber, WR Belcher, pp. 199-249. Lanham: Lexington Books

McClure HA. 1976. Radiocarbon chronology of the late Quaternary lakes in the Arabian desert. Nature 263: 755

McKean MB. 1983. The palynology of Balakot, a pre-Harappan and Harappan age site in Las Bela, Pakistan. PhD thesis. Southern Methodist University, Dallas

Meadow R. 1996. The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in northwestern South Asia. In The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia, ed. DR Harris, pp. 390-412. London: UCL Press

Meadow R, Patel AK. 2003. From Mehrgarh to Harappa and Dholavira: Prehistoric pastoralism in northwestern South Asia from the Neolithic through the Harappan Period. In Indus Ethnobiology. New Perspectives from the Field, ed. SA Weber, WR Belcher, pp. 65-94. Lanham: Lexington Books

Meher-Homji VM. 1980. The Thar Desert: Its climatic history. Man and Environment 4: 1-7

Meher-Homji VM. 1994a. Climate changes over space and time: Their ripercussion on the flora and vegetation. Palaeobotanist 42: 225-40

Meher-Homji VM. 1994b. Palynology: A tool to interpret past environments, climate change or human activity. The Indian Geographical Journal 69: 36-8

Meher-Homji VM. 1996a. Monsoon: A bioclimatologist's point of view. Current Science 71: 327-57

Meher-Homji VM. 1996b. Past environments though palynology: A short appraisal with reference to the Western Ghats. Environment and History 2: 249-52

Meher-Homji VM. 2001. Bioclimatology and Plant Geography of Peninsular India. Jodhpur: Scientific Publishers

Mishra S, Jain M, Tandon SK, Singhvi AK, Joglekar PP, et al. 1999. Prehistoric cultures and late Quaternary environments of the Luni basin around Balotra. Man and Environment 24: 39-50

Misra VN. 1984. Climate, a factor in the rise and fall of the Indus Civilization. In Frontiers of the Indus Civilization, ed. BB Lal, SP Gupta, pp. 461-89. New Dehli: Books and Books

Misra VN, Mohanty RK. 2000. Excavations at Balathal, Distrcit Udaipur, Rajasthan, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute Annual Report, Pune

Misra VN, Mohanty RK. 2001. A rare Chalcolithic pottery cache from Balathal, Rajasthan. Man and Environment 26: 67-74

Misra VN, Shinde V, Mohanty RK, Pandey L, Kharakwal J. 1997. Excavation at Balathal, Udaipur Disctrict, Rajasthan (1995-97), with special reference to Chalcolithic architecture. Man and Environment 22: 35-59

Mughal R. 1982. Recent archaeological research in the Cholistan Desert. In Harappan Civilization. A Contemporary Perspective, ed. GL Possehl, pp. 85-96. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd

Mughal R. 1997. Ancient Cholistan: Archaeology and Architecture. Lahore: Ferozsons

Muzzolini A. 1993. The emergence of a food-producing economy in the Sahara. In The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns, ed. TA Shaw, P Sinclair, B Andah, A Okpoko, pp. 227-39. London and New York: Routledge

Naidu PD. 1996. Onset of an arid climate at 3.5 ka in the ropics: Evidence from monsoon upvwelling record. Current Science 71: 715-8

Neumann K. 1989. Holocene vegetation of the eastern Sahara: Charcoal from prehistoric sites. African Archaeological Review 7: 97-116

Paddaya K. 1994. Investigation of man-environment relationships in Indian archaeology: some theorethical considerations. Man and Environment XIX: 1-28

Phillips WM, Sloan VF, Shroder JF, jr., Sharma P, Rendell HM. 2000. Asynchronous glaciation at Nanga Parbat, northwestern Himalaya

Mountains, Pakistan. Geology 28: 431-4

Possehl GL. 1997a. Climate and the eclipse of the ancient cities of the Indus. In Third Millennium BC Climate Changes and Old World Collapse, ed. HN Dalfes, G Kukla, H Weiss, pp. 193-243. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag

Possehl GL. 1997b. The transformation of the Indus Civilization. Journal of World Prehistory 11: 425-72

Possehl GL. 1998. Sociocultural complexity without the state: The Indus Civilization. In Archaic States, ed. GM Feinman, J Marcus, pp. 261-92. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Possehl GL. 1999. Indus Age.The Beginnings. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Prasad S, Kusumgar S, Gupta SK. 1997. A mid- to late Holocene record of palaeoclimatic changes from Nal Sarovar: A palaeodesert margin lake in western India. Journal of Quaternary Science 12: 153-9

Prins MA, Postma G. 2000. Effects of climate, sea level, and tectonics unraveled for last deglaciation turbidite records of the Arabian Sea. Geology 28: 375-8

Prins MAP, G., Cleveringa J, Cramp A, Kenyon NH. 2000. Controls on terrigenous sediment supply to the Arabian Sea during

the late Quaternary: the Indus Fan. Marine Geology 169: 327-49

Ratnagar S. 1987. Pastoralists in the prehistory of Baluchistan. Studies in History 3: 137-54

Ratnagar S. 2000. The end of the great Harappan tradition. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers. 163 pp.

Reddy SN. 1994. Plant Usage and Subsistence Modeling: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to the Late Harappan of Northwest India. PhD thesis. University of Wisconsin

Rosen AM, Rosen SA. 2001. Determinist or not determinist?: Climate, environment, and archaeological explanation in the Levant. In Studies in the archaeology of Israel and neighboring lands in memory of Douglas L. Esse, ed. SR Wolff, pp. 535-49. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Roy AB. 1999. Evolution of saline lakes in Rajasthan. Current Science 76: 290-5

Schuldenrein J. 2001. Geoarchaeological perspectives on the Harappan sites of South Asia. In Indian Archaeology in Retrospect, ed. S Settar, R Korisettar, pp. 47-80. New Dehli: Manohar

Schuldenrein J, Wright RP, Mughal R, Khan MA. 2004. Landscapes, soils, and mound histories of the Upper Indus Valley, Pakistan: New insights on the Holocene environments near ancient Harappa. Journal of Archaeological Science 31: 777-97

Shaffer JG, Liechtenstein DA. 1989. Ethnicity and change in the Indus Valley Cultural Tradition. In Old Problems and New Perspectives in South Asian Archaeology, ed. JM Kenoyer, pp. 117-26. Madison: Wisconsin Archaeological Reports

Sharma C, Chahuan MS. 1991. Palaeovegetation and palaeoenvironmental inferences from Quaternary palynostratigraphy from the western Indian plains. Man and Environment XVI: 65-71

Shinde V. 2000. The origin and development of the Chalcolithic in Central India. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 19: 125-36

Singh G. 1971. The Indus Valley culture seen in the context of Postglacial climatic and ecological studies in north-west India. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology of Oceania 6: 177-89

Singh G, Chopra SK, Singh AB. 1973. Pollen-rain from the vegetation of north-west India. Phytologist 72: 191-206

Singh G, Joshi RD, Chopra SK, Singh AB. 1974. Late Quaternary history of vegetation and climate in the Rajasthan Desert, India. Phylosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London 267: 467-501

Singh G, Wasson RJ, Agrawal DP. 1990. Vegetational and seasonal climatic changes since the last full glacial in the Thar Desert, northwestern India. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 64: 351-8

Staubwasser M, Sirocko F, Grootes PM, Erlenkeuser H. 2002. South Asian monsoon climate change and radiocarbon in the Arabian Sea during early and middle Holocene. Paleoceanography 17: 15-1 -15-2

Staubwasser M, Sirocko F, Grootes PM, Segl M. 2003. Climate change at the 4.2 ka BP termination of the Indus Valley Civilization and Holocene south Asian monsoon variability. Geophysical Research Letters 30: 1425-29

Stuiver M, Braziunas TF. 1993. Ages of marine samples to 10,000 BC. Radiocarbon 35: 137-89

Stuiver M, Reimer PJ, Braziunas TF. 1998. High-precision radiocarbon age calibration for terrestrial and marine samples. Radiocarbon 40: 1127-51

Swain AM, Kutzbach JE, Hastenrath S. 1983. Estimates of Holocene precipitation for Rajasthan, India, based on pollen and lake-level data. Quaternary Research 19: 1-17

Tengberg M. 1999. Crop Husbandry at Mili Qalat, Makran, SW Pakistan (4000-2000 BC). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 8: 3-12

Thomas K. 2003. Minimizing risk? Approaches to Pre-Harappan human ecology on the northwest margin of the Greater Indus System. In Indus Ethnobiology. New Perspectives from the Field, ed. SA Weber, WR Belcher, pp. 397-430. Lanham: Lexington Books

Vishnu-Mittre. 1974. Plant remains and climate from the late Harappan and other Chalcolithic cultures of India - A study in inter-relationships. Geophytology 4: 46-53

Vishnu-Mittre. 1976. Palaeoecology of the Rajasthan Desert during ther last 10,000 years. The Palaeobotanist 25: 549-58

Vishnu-Mittre. 1978. Palaeoecology of the Rajasthan Desert during the last 10,000 years. Palaeobotanist 25: 549-58

Vishnu-Mittre. 1979. Palaeobotanical evidences of the environment of early man in northwestern and western India. Grana 18: 167-81

Vishnu-Mittre. 1981. Botanical perspective on the Quaternary. The Palaeobotanist 28-29: 402-12

Vishnu-Mittre. 1982. The Harappan Civilization and the need for a new approach. In Harappan Civilization. A Contemporary Perspective, ed. GL Possehl. New Dehli: Oxford University Press & IBH

Vishnu-Mittre. 1985. The uses of wild plants and the processes of domestication in the Indian Sub-continent. In Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory, ed. VN Misra, P Bellwood, pp. 281-91. New Dehli: Oxford and IBH

Vishnu-Mittre. 1990. Plant remains. In Excavations at Surkotada, ed. JP Joshi, pp. 388-92. New Dehli: Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India

Vishnu-Mittre, Sharma C. 1973. Pollen analysis of the salt flat at Malvan, Gujarat. The Palaeobotanist 22: 118-23

Vishnu-Mittre, Sharma C. 1979. Pollen analytical studies at the Nal Lake (Nalsarovar), Gujarat. The Palaeobotanist 26: 95-104

von Rad U, Schaaf M, Michels KH, Schulz H, Berger WH, Sirocko F. 1999. A 5000-yr record of clmate change in varved sediment from the oxygen minimum zone off Pakistan, Northeastern Arabian Sea. Quaternary Research 52: 39-53

Wasson RJ, Smith GI, Agrawal DP. 1984. Late Quaternary sediments, minerals and inferred geochemical history of Didwana Lake, Thar Desert, India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 46: 345-72

Watson A. 1983. Evaporite sedimentation in non-marine environments. In Chemical Sediments and Geomorphology. Precipitates and Residua in the Near-Surface Environment, ed. AS Goudie, K Pye, pp. 163-85. London: Academic Press

Weber SA. 1991. Plants and Harappan Subsistence. An Example of Stability and Change from Rojd. New Delhi: Oxford and IBH

Weber SA. 2001. Seeds of urbanism revisited. Antiquity 75: 413-4

Weber SA. 2003. Archaeobotany at Harappa: Indications for Change. In Indus Ethnobiology. New Perspectives from the Field, ed. SA Weber, WR Belcher, pp. 175-98. Lanham: Lexington Books

Wei K, Gasse F. 1999. Oxygen isotopes in lacustrine carbonates of West China revisited: implications for the post glacial changes in summer monsoon circulation. Quaternary Science Review 18: 1315-34

Weiss H, Bradley RS. 2001. Archaeology. What drives societal collase? Science 291: 988

Wendorf F, Schild R. 1994. Are the Early Holocene cattle in the Eastern Sahara domestic or wild? Evolutionary Anthropology 3: 118-28

Wengxiang W, Tungsheng L. 2004. Possible role of the "Holocene Event 3" on the collapse of Neolithic cultures around the central plain of China. Quaternary International 117: 153-66

Williams MAJ, Dunkerley DL, De Decker P, Kershaw AP, Stokes T. 1993. Quaternary Environments. London: Edward Arnold