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From: Reconstructing long-term settlement histories on complex alluvial floodplains by integrating historical map analysis and remote-sensing: an archaeological analysis of the landscape of the Indus River Basin

Fig. 2

Transformation of the landscape during the twentieth century, exemplified by the area around the city of Khanewal, situated in the border of the Ganji Bar. The town is nowadays (A) a district capital surrounded by irrigated agricultural lands. The historical maps of the Survey of India, show that at the beginning of the twentieth Century (B), the area was occupied by uncultivated lands labelled as “jungal”. The construction of a railway junction and a dense network of irrigation canals and related colonization settlements transformed the area. The process was already well advanced in the 1930s (C), as later editions of the SoI allow us to track

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