Different strategies in Indus agriculture: the goals and outcomes of farming choices

Climate change is often cited in the ‘collapse’ of complex societies and linked to agricultural resilience or lack thereof. In this article, authors consider how demand affected strategies as farmers navigated transformations Late Harappan phase ( c . 1900–1700 BC) Indus tradition. Through modelling monocropping/multicropping, low/high yield crops, supply-driven versus flexible production, various economic, environmental social demands are explored with reference choices these decisions differed regionally, they impacted wider de-urbanisation process. The authors’ archaeobotanical perspective on contributes understanding urban their bases over time.