The Making of a Doab: Archaeology and Settlement History of the Ravi-Beas Doab

This book provides a regionally grounded analysis of settlement continuity and transformation in the Ravi-Beas Doab of Punjab from the Early Historic to the Medieval period. Challenging urban-centric and decline-based narratives, it demonstrates how smaller settlement networks sustained social and economic systems across periods of political change and environmental variability. Drawing on original archaeological survey data, ceramic analysis, GIS-based spatial methods, and ecological contextualisation, the book reconstructs long-term settlement systems as dynamic interactions between landscape, economy, and culture. It foregrounds agrarian hinterlands and riverine environments to show how non-urban regions functioned as active cultural landscapes rather than marginal spaces. A comparative analysis of the Ravi and Beas river basins further highlights regional integration and local adaptation.

It speaks primarily to postgraduate students, researchers, and scholars working in archaeology, ancient history, and heritage studies, particularly those interested in settlement archaeology, landscape approaches, and riverine environments.