Shchetenko, A. Prehistoric Hindustan (Pervobytnyy Indostan) / edited by V. M. Masson. First edition, 1979. In Russian.

Щетенко, А. Я. Первобытный Индостан. Под редакцией В. М. Массона.
Первое издание. Утверждено к печати Институтом археологии АН СССР.
Л.: Наука, Ленинградское отделение, 1979. 276 с., 43 рис. (в том числе на складной вклейке), 11 табл.; обычный формат.
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Shchetenko, A. Ya. Prehistoric Hindustan. Edited by V. M. Masson.
First edition. Approved for publication by the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad Branch, 1979. 276 pp., 43 figures (including a folding plate), 11 tables; standard format.
Hardcover, dust jacket. Artist L. A. Yatsenko. Print run 1,650 copies.
Binding very good: dust jacket with tears and rubbing along the top of the spine and the edges of the flaps, price sticker. Text block very good: clean pages.

Anatoly Yakovlevich Shchetenko was a Leningrad archaeologist who published on the prehistory of South Asia from the 1960s, and this monograph, edited by the Central Asian archaeologist Vadim Mikhailovich Masson (1929-2010) and approved for print by the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, is his principal book on the subject. It opens by contrasting two moments in the study of the region: Stuart Piggott's short survey of 1950 and H. D. Sankalia's fundamental work of 1974, which showed that the peoples of Hindustan had passed through the same general stages of development as the rest of humanity. On the basis of archaeological data, Shchetenko attempts to reconstruct the cultural and economic types of the region from the seventh to the middle of the second millennium BC, and to revise the prevailing concept of the social order of its ancient tribes, placing the period in the pre-class stage that concludes the primitive communal formation. The book draws on the latest discoveries of Indian and Pakistani archaeologists, and argues, among other things, for a local origin of the Central Indian Chalcolithic, in opposition to Sankalia's western-origin theory. Printed in only 1,650 copies and supplied with an English title page, contents and summary, it remains a rare and substantial document of the Leningrad school of South Asian archaeology, of interest to specialists in Indian and Pakistani prehistory and to collectors of Soviet oriental studies.