Rita P. Wright is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. A John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, she has conducted archaeological field research in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. She is the editor of Gender and Archaeology and co-editor, with Cathy L. Costin, of Craft and Social Identity.
1. A long forgotten civilization
2. Geographical and environmental settings
3. From foraging to farming and pastoralism
4. An expanded world of peer polities
5. Urbanism and states: cities, regions and edge zones
6. Agrarian and craft producing economies - intensification and specialization
7. Agrarian and craft producing economies - diversification, organization of production, and exchange
8. The lure of distant lands
9. Landscapes of order and difference - the cultural construction of space, place and material access
10. The final days of urbanism and the Indus civilization: decline, transition and transformation.