Lords of the Mountains: Pre-Islamic Heritage along the Upper Indus in Pakistan

Lords of the Mountains: Pre-Islamic Heritage along the Upper Indus in Pakistan 

Harald Hauptmann , Luca Maria Olivieri (Ed.)  

With his authoritative monograph, Lords of the Mountains. Pre-Islamic Heritage along the Upper Indus in Pakistan, Harald Hauptmann brought decades of research in the Karakoram region of northern Pakistan to an impressive conclusion. In a sense, this book (completed before his sudden death in 2018) is the scientific legacy of the last phase of his career. The book was edited by Luca M. Olivieri of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, head of the ISMEO and Ca’ Foscari’s Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan.

 

(after the foreword by H. Parzinger)

The late Prof. Dr. Harald Hauptmann was a distinguished professor at Heidelberg University in Germany. He had served as the head of the Institute for Prehistoric and Near Eastern Archaeology at Heidelberg University and as the Director of Excavations at various archaeological sites across Europe and the Middle East. His research interests included prehistoric archaeology, cultural heritage preservation, and archaeological methodology and theory. Hauptmann authored and edited several publications, including Beitraege zur ur- und fruehgeschichtlichen Archaeologie des Mittelmeer-Kulturraumes (BAM), Monographies de la Commission Internationale Interacadémique pour la Préhistoire des Balkans, Antiquities of Northern Pakistan. Reports and Studies (ANP 5), and Materials for the Archaeology in the Northern Regions of Pakistan (MANP 1–11).

He received recognition for his work, including being named a fellow of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts in Beograd, and the Institutum Turcicum Scientiae Antiquitatis in Istanbul. Hauptmann was honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998, the Great Sudeten-German Award of Culture in 2002, the Medal of the Collège de France in Paris in 2004, and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 2009.

Luca M. Olivieri is associate professor of Archaeology and Cultures of Gandhara and the Silk Roads, and of History and Material Culture of Buddhism (South Asia/Southeast Asia) at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. He is also the director of the Archaeological Mission in Pakistan (ISMEO, formerly IsIAO, now ISMEO-Ca’ Foscari). He has published more than 200 research papers (including a dozen book reviews) and nine scientific monographic studies, mostly on South and Central Asian archaeology and art history, excavations reports, and heritage management and methodology. 

Hauptmann , Harald: Lords of the Mountains: Pre-Islamic Heritage along the Upper Indus in Pakistan, edited by Luca Maria Olivieri, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1358

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https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1358

ISBN 978-3-96822-269-1 (PDF)

ISBN 978-3-96822-270-7 (Hardcover)

Table of Contents

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Title

I-IV

Table of Contents

V-VII

List of Illustrations

IX-XI

Foreword

XIII-XVI

Acknowledgements

XVII

Note of the Editor

XIX-XX

Editorial Abbreviations

XXI

Map of Major Rock-Art and Other Historical Sites in the Upper Indus Region

XXII-XXIII

Preface

1-3

Prologue

5-6

I Geography and Explorations

7-52

II Archaeology and Anthropology in the Northern Areas

53-105

III The Rock Art of the Upper Indus

107-290

IV Epilogue

291-294

Bibliographic Abbreviations

295-296

Bibliography

297-361

Index of Major Rock-Art Sites Explored by PGAM

363-364

Tables

Table 1-Table 38