A Companion to South Asia in the Past

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John Wiley & Sons, 16 de maig 2016 - 600 pàgines
A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global team of experts.
  • The most comprehensive and detailed scholarly treatment of South Asian archaeology and biological anthropology, providing ground-breaking new ideas and future challenges
  • Provides an in-depth and broad view of the current state of knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal
  • A comprehensive treatment of research in a crucial region for human evolution and biocultural adaptation
  • A global team of scholars together present a varied set of perspectives on South Asian pre- and proto-history
 

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Mammalian Paleodiversity and Ecology of Siwalik Primates in India and Nepal 13
13
A Decade of Paleoanthropology in the Indian Subcontinent 20052015 32
32
Archaic Genomes and the Peopling of South Asia
51
Hominin Fossil Remains from the Narmada Valley
72
Mesolithic Foragers of the Ganges Plain and Adjoining Hilly
86
Pathology Stature and Subsistence
101
Middle Holocene Farmers and Urban Dwellers
125
New Insights on
145
Monuments and Meaning
295
A Textual
310
A Review of Early Historic Urbanization in India
319
Historical and Medieval Period Archaeology
332
Cuisine Cultivation
358
Death and Burial among Two Ancient HighAltitude
374
South Asia in Retrospect
399
Archaeology of Nepal
412

Biological
169
Refining Migration in the Indus Civilization
187
Archaeological Skeletal
205
Social Spectrums of the Mewar Plain
227
The Archaeology of the Late Holocene on the Deccan Plateau
240
A Bioarchaeological Perspective
255
New Perspectives
274
The Collective Memory
450
Anthropology and Museums in India
465
Changing Trends in Theoretical
482
Where Are They Now? The Human Skeletal Remains from India
496
Index
534
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Gwen Robbins Schug,Subhash R. Walimbe
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Gwen Robbins Schug,Subhash R. Walimbe
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Sobre l'autor (2016)

Gwen Robbins Schug is an Associate Professor of biological anthropology at Appalachian State University (Boone, NC). She is the author of Bioarchaeology and Climate Change: A View from South Asian Prehistory (2011). Her research has been widely published in academic journals and covered in Science Magazine, National Geographic, Science Daily, The New Yorker Magazine, and The New York Times.

Subhash Walimbe was Professor of biological anthropology at Deccan College Post-Graduate Research Institute and the Head of Department at Pune University before retiring in 2010. He is the author of nine books and more than 80 research articles on South Asian prehistory. His research has been funded by National Geographic, Smithsonian Institution, and the Ford Foundation, among others. He serves on the advisory committee to several Indian Universities and the Government of India research establishments.

Informació bibliogràfica

TítolA Companion to South Asia in the Past
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
AutorsGwen Robbins Schug, Subhash R. Walimbe
Edicióil·lustrada
EditorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2016
ISBN1119055482, 9781119055488
Nre. de pàgines600 pàgines
  
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