The Bronze Age collapse significantly impacted the civilization and trade networks of India
Multiple studies demonstrate that the Bronze Age collapse of the Indus Valley (Harappan) civilization was significantly impacted by environmental and climatic shifts, leading to changes in trade, settlement patterns, and agricultural strategies.
The retrieved papers consistently support the premise that the Bronze Age Harappan civilization in India underwent significant transformations, settlement abandonments, and agricultural adaptations driven by climatic factors like weakening monsoons. No papers directly refute the claim.
Giosan L, Clift PD, Macklin MG, Fuller DQ, Constantinescu S, Constantinescu S, Durcan JA, Stevens T, Duller GA, Tabrez AR, Gangal K, Adhikari R, Alizai A, Filip F, VanLaningham S, Syvitski JP. Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization.. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112743109
Indicates that the Bronze Age Harappan civilization experienced significant urban decline and settlement shifts due to hydroclimatic stress and weakening monsoons.
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Kathayat G, Cheng H, Sinha A, Yi L, Li X, Zhang H, Li H, Ning Y, Edwards RL. The Indian monsoon variability and civilization changes in the Indian subcontinent.. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701296
Shows that significant shifts in Indian monsoon rainfall coincided with major sociopolitical developments and civilization changes in the Indus Valley.
Sarkar A, Mukherjee AD, Bera MK, Das B, Juyal N, Morthekai P, Deshpande RD, Shinde VS, Rao LS. Oxygen isotope in archaeological bioapatites from India: Implications to climate change and decline of Bronze Age Harappan civilization.. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep26555
Demonstrates that the decline of the Bronze Age Harappan civilization was tied to regional climate change and subsequent shifts in agricultural subsistence strategies.
Petrie CA, Bates J. 'Multi-cropping', Intercropping and Adaptation to Variable Environments in Indus South Asia.. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-017-9101-z
Examines how Indus populations adapted their agricultural strategies, including multi-cropping, in response to environmental and climatic changes during the Bronze Age.
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