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Reading a River: Ecology, Settlement and Climate in the Late Rigvedic Northwest
What the Nadistuti (RV 10.75) implies about the Holocene landscape of the Vedic Punjab. Snowmelt and monsoon regimes, settlement patterns inferred from the river-list, the 4.2 ka climate event, and what the hymn is silent about.