A Companion to South Asia in the Past

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John Wiley & Sons, 13 d’abr. 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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Acknowledgments
Maps
Introduction
Mammalian Fossil Assemblages
Archaic Genomes and the Peopling
References
Out of Africa and into South Asia
Conclusions
The Center Cannot Hold
Chapter 17
4 Contextual analysis of the different
Early Iron Age Megalith Builders
Situating Iron Age Monuments
A Review of Early Historic
Historical and Medieval Period
The Transition to Agricultural

Hominin Fossil Remains from
References
Mesolithic Foragers of the Ganges Plain
4 Mean long bone length by sex Damdama
Current Perspectives on the Harappan
Excavations at Harappa 19862010
3 Harappan phase burial features
Bioarchaeology of the Indus Valley
More than Origins
Aryans and the Indus Civilization
Acknowledgments
Mesolithic Foragers of the Ganges Plain
References
The Archaeology of the Late Holocene
Subsistence
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
From Millet to Rice and Back Again?
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Prehistoric Archaeology in Bangladesh
Archaeology of Nepal
The Peopling of Sri Lanka from
A Decade of Paleoanthropology in
The Oldest Acheulean in India
References
Moving Forward Looking Back
Anthropology and Museums in India
Human Skeletal Studies
Where Are They Now? The Human
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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
EditorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2016
ISBN1119055377, 9781119055372
Nre. de pàgines600 pàgines
  
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