Jim G. Shaffer
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Jim G. Shaffer is an American
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 archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology
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 at Case Western Reserve University
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Shaffer holds a B.A.
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 (1965) and M.A.
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 (1967) in Anthropology from Arizona State University
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. He also has a Ph.D.
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 (1972) in Anthropology from University of Wisconsin–Madison
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. He is noted for his studies on the Indus Valley Civilization
Indus Valley Civilization
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Publications

  • "The Indo-Aryan Invasions: Cultural Myth and Archaeological Reality", in John R Lukacs (ed.) The People of South Asia: The Biological Anthropology of India, Pakistan and Nepal, New York,1984, Plenum Press, pp. 77-88.
  • Prehistoric Baluchistan: With Excavation Report on Said Qala Tepe.
  • A Honaki Phase Site on the Lower Verde River, Arizona.
  • "Reurbanization: The Eastern Punjab and Beyond." 1993 In Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times. Studies in the History of Art No. 31. H. Spodek
    Howard Spodek
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    and D.M. Srinivasan, (Eds.). Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, pp. 53-67.
  • "The Indus Valley, Baluchistan and Helmand Traditions: Neolithic Through Bronze Age." 1992 In Chronologies in Old World Archaeology. Second Edition. R.W. Ehrich, (Ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I:441-464, II:425-446.

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