Поссель, Грегори (Hkvvyl,, Ijyikjn)

Гре́гори Лу́ис По́ссель
англ. Gregory Louis Possehl
Дата рождения	21 июля 1941(1941-07-21)
Дата смерти	8 октября 2011(2011-10-08) (70 лет)
Страна
Род деятельности	антрополог, археолог
Научная сфера	антропология археология индология
Место работы	Пенсильванский университет
Альма-матер	Вашингтонский университет Чикагский университет
Учёная степень	доктор философии (PhD) по антропологии
Учёное звание	профессор
Известен как	археолог и антрополог, специалист по Древней Индии

Гре́гори Лу́ис По́ссель (англ. Gregory Louis Possehl; 21 июля 1941 — 8 октября 2011) — американский археолог и антрополог, специалист по Древней Индии.

Биография

В 1964 году окончил Вашингтонский университет получив бакалавра гуманитарных наук по антропологии, а в 1967 году там же магистра гуманитарных наук по антропологии. В 1967 году в Чикагском университете получил доктора философии по антропологии.

Начиная с 1964 года занимался археологическими исследованиям цивилизации долины Инда. С 2007 году проводил изыскания в Омане.

Профессор-эмерит антропологии кафедры антропологии Пенсильванского университета.

Куратор Азиатских коллекций Музея археологии и антропологии Пенсильванского университета.

Научные труды

Монографии

• Possehl G. L. Ancient Cities of The Indus. — Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1979. — 422 p.
• Possehl G. L. Kulli: An exploration of ancient civilization in South Asia. — Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1986. — 168 p.
• Possehl G. L., Raval M. H. Harappan Civilization and Rojdi. — Delhi: Oxford & IBH and the American Institute of Indian Studies, 1989. — 197 p.
• Possehl G. L. Harappan Civilization: A recent perspective. — 2nd revised edition. — Delhi: Oxford & IBH and the American Institute of Indian Studies, 1993.
• Possehl G. L. Indus Age: The writing system. — University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. — 244 p.
• Possehl G. L. Indus Age: The beginnings. — Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. — 1063 p.
• Possehl G. L. The Indus Civilization: A contemporary perspective. — Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 2002. — 288 p.

Статьи

• Possehl G. L. 1967. The Mohenjo-daro floods: A reply. American Anthropologist 69: 32-40.
• Possehl G. L. 1974. Variation and change in the Indus Civilization: A study of prehistoric Gujarat with special reference to the post-urban Harappan. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Chicago. x, 302 pp., ill. Revised version published in 1980 as «Indus Civilization in Saurashtra».
• Dhavalikar M. K., Possehl G. L., 1974. Subsistence pattern of an early farming community of western India. Puratattva (Bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society) 7: 39-46.
• Possehl G. L. 1975. The chronology of gabarbands and palas in western South Asia. Expedition 17 (2): 33-37.
• Kennedy K. A. R., Possehl G. L. (eds.), 1976. Ecological backgrounds of South Asian prehistory. Symposium convened at the seventy-second annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 2, 1973, New Orleans. (South Asia Occasional Papers and Theses, 4.) Ithaca NY: South Asia Program, Cornell University. 28 cm, vi, 236 pp., ill., maps. Pb
• Possehl G. L. 1976. Lothal: A gateway settlement of the Harappan Civilization. pp. 198—131 in: Kennedy, Kenneth A. R., and Gregory L. Possehl (eds.), Ecological backgrounds of South Asian prehistory. (South Asia Occasional Papers and Theses, 4.) Ithaca: South Asia Program, Cornell University. Reprinted, pp. 212—218 in: Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.) 1979. Ancient cities of the Indus. New Delhi.
• Possehl G. L. 1977. The end of a state and continuity of a tradition: A discussion of the Late Harappan. pp. 234—254 in: Fox, Richard G. (ed.), Realm and region in traditional India. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
• Possehl G. L. (ed.) 1979. ANCIENT CITIES OF THE INDUS. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press & New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. 27 cm, xv, 422 pp., 8 pl., ill. Hb ISBN 0-89089-093-5 & 0-7069-0781-7.
• Possehl G. L. 1979. Introduction. Pp. vii-xv in: Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.), Ancient cities of the Indus.
• Possehl G. L. 1979. Radiocarbon dates for the Indus Civilization and related sites. pp. 358—360 in: Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.), Ancient cities of the Indus.
• Possehl G. L. 1979. An extensive bibliography of the Indus Civilization including references cited in the text. pp. 361—422 in: Possehl, Gregory L., 1979. (Ed.) Ancient cities of the Indus.
• Possehl G. L. 1979. Pastoral nomadism in the Indus Civilization: An hypothesis. pp. 537—551 in: Taddei, Maurizio (ed.), South Asian Archaeology 1977, vol. I. (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Seminario di Studi Asiatici, Series minor, 6: I.) Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, Seminario di Studi Asiatici.
• Possehl G. L., Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, 1979. Hunter-gatherer/agriculturalist exchange in prehistory: An Indian example. Current Anthropology 20 (3): 592—593.
• Possehl G. L. 1980. INDUS CIVILIZATION IN SAURASHTRA. New Delhi: Published on behalf of Indian Archaeological Society by B.R. Publishing Corporation. 29 cm, xvi, 264 pp., ill., maps. Hb [Revised version of the author’s Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Chicago, 1974.]
• Possehl G. L. 1981. Cambay bead-making: An ancient craft in modern India. Expedition 23 (4): 39-46.
• Possehl G. L. (ed.) 1982. HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies; Warminster: Aris & Phillips in cooperation with American Institute of Indian Studies. 28 cm xiii, 440 pp., 93 pl., maps. Hb
• Possehl G. L. 1982. The Harappan Civilization: A contemporary perspective. pp. 15-28 in: Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.), Harappan Civilization: A contemporary perspective.
• Possehl G. L. 1982. Discovering ancient India’s earliest cities: The first phase of research. pp. 405—413 in: Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.), Harappan Civilization: A contemporary perspective.
• Possehl G. L. 1984. Archaeological terminology and the Harappan Civilization. pp. 27-36 in: Lal, B.B., and S.P. Gupta (eds.), Frontiers of the Indus Civilization: Sir Mortimer Wheeler Commemoration Volume. New Delhi: Indian Archaeological Society.
• Kennedy, Kenneth A. R., Possehl G. L. (eds.) 1984. STUDIES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALAEOANTHROPOLOGY OF SOUTH ASIA. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies. 25 cm, viii, 144 pp., ill., maps.
• Lyons, Elizabeth, and Heather Peters, 1985. Buddhism: History and diversity of a great tradition. With contributions by Chang Ch’eng-mei & Gregory L. Possehl. Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. 28 cm, 64 pp., ill., map. ISBN 0-934718-76-8.
• Possehl G. L. 1986. KULLI: AN EXPLORATION OF AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION IN SOUTH ASIA. (Centers of Civilization, 1.) Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 29 cm, viii, 168 pp., ill. Hb ISBN 0-89089-173-7.
• Possehl G. L. 1986. African millets in South Asian prehistory. pp. 237—256 in: Jerome Jacobson (ed.), Studies in the archaeology of India and Pakistan. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies.
• Possehl G. L. 1987—1988. Indian Archaeology, A Review: Guide to excavated sites 1953-54 through 1983-84. Puratattva (Bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society) 18: 113—172.
• Possehl G. L. 1989. RADIOCARBON DATES FOR SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. (Occasional publication of the Asian Section.) Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. 28 cm. 60 pp.
• Possehl G. L., M. H. Raval, 1989. HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION AND ROJDI. With contributions from Y. M. Chitalwala et al. Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill; New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies. 29 cm, xv, 197 pp., 46 pl., 80 ill., 5 maps. ISBN 90-04-09157-2 & 81-204-0404-1.
• Possehl G. L. 1990. Revolution in the urban revolution: The emergence of Indus urbanization. Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 261—282.
• Possehl G. L. 1990. An archaeological adventurer in Afghanistan: Charles Masson. South Asian Studies 6: 111—124.
• Possehl G. L., Charles Frank Herman, 1990. The Sorath Harappan: A new regional manifestation of the Indus urban phase. pp. 295—319 in: Taddei, Maurizio, with P. Callieri (ed.), South Asian Archaeology 1987, vol. I. (Serie Orientale Roma 66: I.) Roma: Istituto per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente.
• Rissman, Paul C., and Y. M. Chitalwala, 1990. Harappan Civilization and Oriyo Timbo. With contributions from Gregory L. Possehl et al. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies. 25 cm, xi, 155 pp., ill. ISBN 81-204-0484-X.
• Possehl G. L., Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, 1990. Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia (1908—1989). American Anthropologist 92: 1006—1010.
• Possehl G. L., M.H. Raval, 1991. A report on the excavations at Babar Kot: 1990-91. S.l. 16 p. Submitted to the ASI.
• Possehl G. L., Paul C. Rissman, 1992. The chronology of prehistoric India: From earliest times to the Iron Age. pp. 465—490 in vol. I and pp. 447—474 (Fig. 1-13, tables 1-14 and References) in vol. II of: Ehrich, Robert W. (ed.), Chronologies in Old World archaeology, 3rd ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Possehl G. L. 1992. The Harappan cultural mosaic: Ecology revisited. pp. 237—244 in vol. I of: Jarrige, Catherine (ed.), South Asian Archaeology 1989. (Monographs in World Archaeology, 14.) Madison WI: Prehistory Press.
• Possehl G. L., 1992. The Harappan Civilization in Gujarat: The Sorath and Sindhi Harappans. The Eastern Anthropologist 45 (1-2): 117—154.
• Possehl G. L., 1992. A short history of archaeological discovery at Harappa. In: Meadow 1992a: 5-11.
• Possehl G. L. (ed.) 1992. SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY STUDIES. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. and American Institute of Indian Studies; New York: International Science Publisher (1993). 24 cm, x, 266 pp., ill., map. Hb ISBN 81-204-0734-2 & 1881570177.
• Possehl G. L., 1992. Walter Ashlin Fairservis, Jr. pp. 1-12 in: Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.), South Asian archaeology studies.
• Possehl G. L., 1992. Toymakers and trade: A notice of early twentieth century commerce between Philadelphia and India. pp. 261—266 in: Possehl, Gregory L. (ed.), South Asian archaeology studies.
• Possehl G. L. (ed.) 1993. HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION: A RECENT PERSPECTIVE. 2nd revised ed. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. an American Institute of Indian Studies. 28 cm, xv, 595 pp., 120 pl., maps, index. Hb ISBN 81-204-0779-2.
• Possehl G. L., 1993. The date of Indus urbanization: A proposed chronology for the Pre-Urban and Urban Harappan phases. pp. 231—249 in: Gail, Adalbert J., and G. R. Mevissen (eds.), South Asian Archaeology 1991. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
• Possehl G. L., Maurizio Tosi (eds.) 1993. HARAPPAN STUDIES, Vol. 1. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. 71 pp. Pb INR 395. ISBN 81-204-0819-5.
• Possehl G. L., 1994. The Indus Civilisation. Man and Environment 19 (1-2): 103—113.
• Possehl G. L., 1994. Of men. pp. 179—186 in: Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark (ed.), From Sumer to Meluhha: Contributions to the archaeology of South and West Asia in memory of George F. Dales, Jr. (Wisconsin Archaeological Reports, 3.) Madison, WI: Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
• Possehl G. L., 1994. RADIOMETRIC DATES FOR SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. (An occasional publication of the Asia Section.) Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum. 122 pp.
• Possehl G. L., Dinker P. Mehta, 1994. Excavations at Rojdi, 1992-93. pp. 603—614 in: Parpola, Asko, and Petteri Koskikallio (eds.), South Asian Archaeology 1993, vol. II. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae B 271: II.) Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.
• Possehl G. L., 1996. Meluhha. pp. 133—208 in: Reade, Julian (ed.), The Indian Ocean in antiquity. London: Kegan Paul International in association with the British Museum.
• Possehl G. L., 1996. Climate and the eclipse of the ancient cities of the Indus. pp. 193—244 in: Dalfes, H. Nüzhet, George Kukla and Harvey Weiss (eds.), Third millennium BC climate change and Old World collapse. (NATO ASI, Series 1: Global Environment Change, vol. 49.) Berlin & New York: Springer.
• Possehl G. L., 1996. INDUS AGE: THE WRITING SYSTEM. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; New Delhi: Oxford IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. 29 cm, xiv, 244 pp., 16 pl. Hb ISBN 0-8122-3345-X & 81-204-1083-1.
• Possehl G. L., 1997. The transformation of the Indus Civilization. Journal of World Prehistory 11 (4): 425—472. Reprinted in Man and Environment 24 (2), 1999: 1-33.
• Possehl G. L., 1997. The date of the Surkotada cemetery: A reassessmentin light of recent archaeological work in Gujarat. pp. 81-87 in: Joshi, Jagat Pati (ed.), Facets of Indian Civilization: Recent perspectives. Essays in honour of Professor B. B. Lal. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• Possehl G. L., 1997. Seafaring merchants of Meluhha. pp. 87-100 in: Allchin, Bridget (ed.), South Asian Archaeology 1995. Cambridge: Ancient India and Iran Trust; New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
• Possehl G. L., 1997—1998. An Harappan outpost on the Amu Darya: Shortughai, Why was it there? Indologica Taurinensia 23-24: 57-70, 1 fig.
• Possehl G. L., 1998. Sociocultural complexity without the state: The Indus Civilization. pp. 261—291 in: Feinman, Gary M., and Joyce Marcus (eds.), The archaic states. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research.
• Possehl G. L., 1998. Did the Sarasvati ever flow to the sea? pp. 339—354 in: Philips, C. S., D. T. Potts and S. Searight (eds.), Arabia and its neighbours: Essays on prehistorical and historical developments presented in honour of Beatric de Cardi. Brussels: Brepols.
• Possehl G. L., 1998. Introduction of African millets to the Indian subcontinent. pp. 107—121 in: Pendergast, H. D. V., N. L., Etkin, D. R. Harris and P. J. Houghton (eds.), Plants for food and medicine. Kew: The Royal Botanic Gardens.
• Possehl G. L., 1999. INDUS AGE: THE BEGINNINGS. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. 29 cm, xxxvi, 1063 pp., 580 b/w ill. Hb ISBN 0-8122-3417-0. Reviewed: Asko Parpola, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 3 Dec 1999, p. 24.
• Possehl G. L., Praveena Gullapalli, 1999. The Early Iron Age in South Asia. pp. 153—175 in: Pigott, Vincent C. (ed.), The archaeometallurgy of the Asian Old World. (MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, University Museum Monograph, volume 16.) Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
• Possehl G. L., 2000. Harappan beginnings. pp. 99-112 in: Lamberg-Karlovsky, Martha (ed.), The breakout: The origins of civilization. (Peabody Museum Monographs, 9.) Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
• Possehl G. L., 2000—2001. The Early Harapopan phase. Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute 60-61: 227—241, 10 figs.
• Possehl G. L., 2000—2001. The Mature Harapopan phase. Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute 60-61: 243—251, 2 figs.
• Possehl G. L., 2002. THE INDUS CIVILIZATION: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. 29 cm, xi, 276 pp., ill., maps. Pb ISBN 0-7591-0172-8. Hb ISBN 0-7591-0171-X.
• Possehl G. L., 2002. Fifty years of Harappan archaeology: The study of the Indus Civilization since Indian independence. pp. 1-46 in: Settar, S., and Ravi Korisettar (eds.), Protohistory: Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization. (Indian archaeology in retrospect, vol. II.) New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research & Manohar.
• Possehl G. L., 2002. Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization: An annotated list of excavations and surveys. pp. 421—482 in: Settar, S., and Ravi Korisettar (eds.) Protohistory: Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization.(Indian archaeology in retrospect, vol. II.) New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research & Manohar.
• Possehl G. L., 2002. Indus-Mesopotamian trade: The record in the Indus. Iranica Antiqua 37: 322—340.
• Possehl G. L., 2003. The Indus Civilization: An introduction to environment, subsistence, and cultural history. pp. 1-20 in: Weber, Steven A., and William R. Belcher (eds.), Indus ethnobiology: New perspectives from the field. Lanham MD: Lexington Books.
• Possehl G. L. and M. Witzel. Vedic. In: P. N. Peregrine and M. Ember, eds., Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 8: South and Southwest Asia. Published in conjunction with the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 391—396.
• Shinde, V., G. L. Possehl and M. Ameri, 2005. Excavations at Gilund 2001—2003: The seal impressions and other finds. pp. 159—169 in: Franke-Vogt, Ute, & Hans-Joachim Weisshaar (eds.), South Asian Archaeology 2003. (Forschungen zur Archäologie aussereuropäischer Kulturen, 1.) Aachen: Linden Soft Verlag e. K.
• Possehl G. L., 2007. The Indus Civilization. Chapter 9 in: Hinnells, John R. (ed.), Handbook of ancient religions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Joshi, Jagat Pati, 2008. Harappan architecture and civil engineering. Foreword by Gregory L. Possehl. (Infinity Foundation series.) New Delhi: Rupa & Co., in association with Infinity Foundation. ISBN 978-81-291-1183-8.
• Possehl G. L., 2010. Review of: Parpola, Asko, B. M. Pande and Petteri Koskikallio (eds.), 2010. Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, Volume 3: New material, untraced objects, and collections outside India and Pakistan. Part 1: Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, in collaboration with Richard H. Meadow and J. Mark Kenoyer. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Humaniora 359; Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 96.) Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. Journal of the American Oriental Society 130 (2).
• Possehl G. L., 2012. «Indus River». In Berkshire encyclopedia of sustainability: Afro-Eurasia: Assessing sustainability. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group.