Further Reading

Listed here are a number of publications which are either the result of our project's work or which offer some further details about the background to our project and the methods we use.

Bates, J., Morrison, K.D., Madella, M., Hill, A.C., Whitehouse, N.J., Abro, T., Ajithprasad, P., Anupama, K., Casile, A., Chandio A., Chatterjee, S., Gangopadhyay, K., Hammer, E., Haricharan, S., Hazarika, M., Korisettar, R., Kumar, A., Lancelotti, C., Pappu, S., Parque, O., Petrie, C.A., Premathilake, R., Selvakumar, V., Sen, S., Spate, M., Trivedi, M., Veesar, M., and Vinayak. V. 2025. Early to Mid-Holocene land use transitions in South Asia: a new archaeological synthesis of potential human impacts, PLoS ONE 20(2): e0313409 [online 13/02/2025; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313409]

Berganzo-Besga, I., Orengo, H.A., Lumbreras, F. et al. Curriculum learning-based strategy for low-density archaeological mound detection from historical maps in India and Pakistan. Sci Rep 13, 11257 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38190-x

Conesa, F.C., Orengo, H.A., Lobo, A., and Petrie, C.A. 2022. An Algorithm to Detect Endangered Cultural Heritage by Agricultural Expansion in Drylands at a Global Scale, Remote Sensing 15(1), 53 [DOI: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/1/53].

Garcia-Molsosa, A., Orengo, H.A., Lawrence, D., Hopper, K., Philip, G. and Petrie, C.A. 2021. Potential of deep learning segmentation for the extraction of archaeological features from historical map series, Archaeological Prospection 28.2: 187-199 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/arp.1807].

Garcia-Molsosa, A., Orengo, H.A. and Petrie, C.A. 2023. Reconstructing long-term settlement histories on complex alluvial floodplains by integrating historical map analysis and remote-sensing: an archaeological analysis of the landscape of the Indus River Basin, Heritage Science 11.141 [online 10/07/2023; DOI: https://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-023-00985-6].

Giesche, A., Hodell, D.A., Petrie, C.A., Haug, G.A., Adkins, J.F., Plessen, B., Marwan, N., Bradbury, H.J., Hartland, A., French, A.D. Breitenbach, S.F.M. 2023. Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India, Nature Communications Earth & Environment 4, 103 [online 04/05/2023; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00763-z].

Petrie, C.A., Bates, J., Higham, T. and Singh, R.N. 2016. Feeding ancient cities in South Asia: dating the adoption of rice, millet and tropical pulses in the Indus Civilisation, Antiquity 90.354: 1489-1504 [doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.210].

Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N., Bates, J., Dixit, Y., French, C.A.I, Hodell, D., Jones, P.J., Lancelotti, C., Lynam, F., Neogi, S., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Pawar, V., Redhouse, D.I., Singh, D.P. 2017. Adaptation to variable environments, resilience to climate change: investigating Land, Water and Settlement in northwest India, Current Anthropology 58.1: 1-30 [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/690112].

Petrie, C.A. and Bates, J. 2017. ‘Multi-cropping’, intercropping and adaptation to variable environments in the Indus Civilisation, Journal of World Prehistory 30: 81-130 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-017-9101-z].

Orengo, H.A. and Petrie, C.A. 2017. Large-scale, multi-temporal remote sensing of palaeo-river networks: a case study from northwest India and 
its implications for the Indus Civilisation, Remote Sensing 9.735 [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9070735].

Orengo, H.A. and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Multi-Scale Relief Model (MSRM): a new algorithm for the analysis of subtle topographic change in digital 
elevation models, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms [online first 14 December 2017; doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4317].

Green, A.S. and Petrie, C.A. 2018. Landscapes of urbanisation and de-urbanization: integrating site location datasets from northwest India to investigate changes in the Indus Civilization’s settlement distribution, Journal of Field Archaeology [online first May 11, 2018; https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2018.1464332].

Garcia, A., Orengo, H.A., Conesa, F.C., Green, A.S. and Petrie, C.A. 2019. Remote Sensing and historical morphodynamics of alluvial plains: the 1909 Indus flood and the city of Dera Ghazi Khan (Province of Punjab, Pakistan), Geosciences 9.1.21 (1-26) [online first 29 December 2018; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9010021].

Green, A.S., Singh, R.N., Alam, A., Garcia, A., Green, L.M., Conesa, F., Orengo, H.A., Ranjan A., and Petrie, C.A. 2019. Re-discovering dynamic ancient landscapes: archaeological survey of mound features from historical maps in northwest India and their implications for the large-scale distribution of settlements in South Asia, Remote Sensing 11(18), 2089 [DOI: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/18/2089/pdf; 
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11182089].

Petrie, C.A., Orengo, H., Green, A.S., Walker, J.R., Garcia, A., Conesa, F., Knox, J.R. and Singh, R.N. 2019. Mapping archaeology while mapping an empire: using historical maps to reconstruct settlement landscapes in India and Pakistan, Geosciences 9.1:11 (1-26) [online first 25 December 2018; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9010011].

Petrie, C.A. and Lynam, F. 2019. Revisiting settlement contemporaneity and exploring stability and instability: case-studies from the Indus Civilisation, Journal of Field Archaeology 45.1: 1-15 [accepted 15/07/2019;DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2019.1664848].

Hector A. Orengo, Francesc C. Conesa, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Agustín Lobo, Adam S. Green, Marco Madella, Cameron A. Petrie. 2020. Automated detection of archaeological mounds using machine-learning classification of multisensor and multitemporal satellite data, PNAS 117.31: 
18240-18250 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005583117 ].

Petrie, C.A., Lightfoot, E., Jones, P.J., Walker, J.R., Valentine, B.T., Krigbaum, J., le Roux, P., Joglekar, P.P., Shinde, V., Singh, R.N., and O’Connell, T.C. 2024. Animal movement on the hoof and on the cart and its implications for understanding exchange within the Indus Civilisation. Scientific Reports 14.158. [online 02/01/2024; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50249-3]