Reveals insights into the Ahar-Banas Cultural Complex in Rajasthan, India, offering comprehensive analysis of artifacts from a five-year excavation project. Contributors explore early farming villages, trade networks, and the transition from Chalcolithic to Iron Age, providing a broader understanding of regional cultural dynamics in global context.

Vasant Shinde is Professor of Archaeology at the Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute in India. Teresa P. Raczek is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Kennesaw State University. Gregory L. Possehl was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of the Asian Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.