A History of Agriculture in India v1.c49.12

v1.c49.12

FA-HSIEN, 410, 412 Famine and drought, 23 Buddhist period, 337 Farming Aryans of Sintashta, USSR, 281 Buddhist period, 337 Calcolithic period, 113 *see also* Agricultural practices and techniques Farmers, Southeast Asia, 267–68 Fat, from sheep, 121 Fauna Pleistocene, 62–63 Siwalik period, 46 Tertiary period, 46 *see also* Animals Felt-making, 122 Ferozepur, Punjab, Harappan finds, 141 Fertile Crescent, 101–10 art of seeding, 268 diffusion of agriculture, 109 hearth of agriculture, 269 manufacture of stone blades, 130 Neolithic cultures 102 period of, 273 Festivals, Gupta Period, 414 Fibre plants centres of origin, 502, 503 Fig, native home, 112 Fire cult of, 279 human achievement, 64 Peking man, 64 Fishes and fishing, 211-12 later-Vedic period, 309 Flax, 107 Floods, Lothal, 152 Flora, see Vegetation Flower people, 73 Fodder and feed Arthashastra, 372 centres of origin, 503, 504 Food Kanauj empire, 427 Vedic period, 293 later-Vedic period, 314 Food crops, Harappan, 161-79 Food gatherers, Mesolithic, 78-82 Food habits Aharians, 151 Tribals of Madhya Pradesh, 97 Foodgrains cultivation, Harappa, 163 storage, Neolithic period, 107 Food plants and the Vedas, 301-2 Forage crops oldest centre, 269 origin, 112 Forced labour, 423 Forests clearing of Buddhist period, 323 Neolithic period, 221-22 depletion, 181 deciduous, 30-40 Central India, 39 KASHYAPA on, 489-90 Lothal, 152 settlements in, 430-32 soils, 19, 20 tropical evergreen, 40-41 tropical thorn, 29-30 Fortresses and citadels, Harappan destruction by Aryans, 289 early Iron Age, 307 Kalibangan, 148-49 Fossil finds anthropoid apes, 47-48 Hominids, 49-55 Homo erectus, 63-66 Homo sapiens sapiens, 75-76 Neanderthal man, 71-75 FRASER, William, Neolithic sites, 233 Fruit-plants Asokan Age, 381 in Bharhut sculptures, 381-83 Hiuen Tsang, 427 Fruits centres of origin, 269, 501-2, 504 Chalcolithic cultivation, 112-13 Harappan agriculture, 180 in Neolithic Deccan, 246-47 Funeral rites, Sintashta, USSR, 281 Furnaces, Harappan, 139 Furrowing, 113