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dc.contributor.authorSingh, Ajit
dc.contributor.authorThomsen, Kristina J.
dc.contributor.authorSinha, Rajiv
dc.contributor.authorBuylaert, Jan-Pieter
dc.contributor.authorCarter, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorMark, Darren F.
dc.contributor.authorMason, Philippa J.
dc.contributor.authorDensmore, Alexander L.
dc.contributor.authorMurray, Andrew S.
dc.contributor.authorJain, Mayank
dc.contributor.authorPaul, Debajyoti
dc.contributor.authorGupta, Sanjeev
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-08T16:30:12Z
dc.date.available2017-12-08T16:30:12Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-28
dc.identifier251715581
dc.identifier6e10a5cd-e47b-4a32-a0bb-711617698365
dc.identifier85036479908
dc.identifier000416399200001
dc.identifier.citationSingh , A , Thomsen , K J , Sinha , R , Buylaert , J-P , Carter , A , Mark , D F , Mason , P J , Densmore , A L , Murray , A S , Jain , M , Paul , D & Gupta , S 2017 , ' Counter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements ' , Nature Communications , vol. 8 , 1617 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01643-9en
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:475BCEFCB4511712375420941CDECBA0
dc.identifier.otherRIS: Singh2017
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/12303
dc.descriptionWe acknowledge seed grants from the Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society and UKIERI. Natural Environment Research Council Argon Isotope Facility grant IP-1267-1111 funded the argon analyses. A.S. was supported by a IIT-K PhD fellowship. J-P.B. receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme ERC-2014-StG 639904 – RELOS.en
dc.description.abstractUrbanism in the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation (~4.6–3.9 thousand years before the present, ka) has been linked to water resources provided by large Himalayan river systems, although the largest concentrations of urban-scale Indus settlements are located far from extant Himalayan rivers. Here we analyse the sedimentary architecture, chronology and provenance of a major palaeochannel associated with many of these settlements. We show that the palaeochannel is a former course of the Sutlej River, the third largest of the present-day Himalayan rivers. Using optically stimulated luminescence dating of sand grains, we demonstrate that flow of the Sutlej in this course terminated considerably earlier than Indus occupation, with diversion to its present course complete shortly after ~8 ka. Indus urban settlements thus developed along an abandoned river valley rather than an active Himalayan river. Confinement of the Sutlej to its present incised course after ~8 ka likely reduced its propensity to re-route frequently thus enabling long-term stability for Indus settlements sited along the relict palaeochannel.
dc.format.extent14
dc.format.extent17137144
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofNature Communicationsen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectQE Geologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.subject.lccQEen
dc.titleCounter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlementsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Earth & Environmental Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01643-9
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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