Possehl Wins Prize for Book on Indus Civilization
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March 23, 2004
Professor of anthropology Gregory Possehl has received the 2003 Outstanding Academic Book Award from Choice magazine for Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective. The book traces the rise and fall of this civilization, detailing its economic, architectural, artistic, religious, and intellectual components; describing its most famous sites; and examining its relationships with other cultures.
Professor Possehl is the curator of the Asian section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He is a leading expert on the history and archaeology of the ancient Indus civilization of India and Pakistan. He has conducted excavations of the Indus civilization since 1980. He began teaching at Penn in 1973 and received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1974.