Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Late Bronze and Iron Age, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan: An integrated study of the archaeological plant and animal remains from rural and urban sites, using modern ethnographic information to develop a model of economic organisation and contact

By focusing on two regional river valleys rather than individual sites or small groups of sites in north west Pakistan, Ruth Young shows how previous studies of 2nd millennium BC subsistence strategies have reached rather limited and often unrepresentative conclusions. Both new and published archaeological and environmental evidence, plus ethnographic interviews, from the valleys of Swat and Dir are used to reveal insights which contradict tradition models of urban-rurak, plains-hills dichotomies.