Zoomorphic terracotta figurines from Chanhu-daro : Mediums of the inventiveness of a culture dedicated to animals
Résumé
"The results presented below come from a Master 2 research thesis. It was
carried out at the University Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne (2021-2022) [within the frame of the French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin] .
This thesis had multiple objectives :
• Establishing a list of Chanhu-daro’s zoomorphic terracotta figurines in
order to establish typologies specific to the site;
• Detecting any link between zoomorphic figurines and their
characteristics, on the one hand, and their distribution on the site and
their context of discovery on the other;
• Studying the traces present on the zoomorphic figurines as well as
their decorations and morphology to understand the modalities of their
manufacture.
The corpus includes 401 figurines from the Indus Civilisation site of
Chanhu-daro (Sindh, Pakistan).
They were found during the excavations and surveys of:
• MAFBI since 2015;
• N. G. Majumdar, in 1931;
• E. J. H. Mackay, from 1935 to 1936.
They were dated in majority from the first Indus period (2600/2500-2300
BCE), but also from the second Indus period (2300-2100 BCE) and the
third Indus period (2100-1900 BCE)."
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