The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia Inter-disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics
South Asia is home to a diverse range of prehistoric and contemporary cultures that include foragers, pastoralists, and farmers. In this book, archaeologists, biological anthropologists, geneticists and linguists are brought together in order to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2007, 2007
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007 |
| Series: | Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Setting Foundations
- Afro-Eurasian mammalian fauna and early hominin dispersals
- “Resource-rich, stone-poor”: Early hominin land use in large river systems of northern India and Pakistan
- Toward developing a basin model for Paleolithic settlement of the Indian subcontinent: Geodynamics, monsoon dynamics, habitat diversity and dispersal routes
- The Acheulean of peninsular India with special reference to the Hungsi and Baichbal valleys of the lower Deccan
- Changing trends in the study of a Paleolithic site in India: A century of research at Attirampakkam
- Was Homo heidelbergensis in South Asia? A test using the Narmada fossil from central India
- The Modern Scene
- The Toba supervolcanic eruption: Tephra-fall deposits in India and paleoanthropological implications
- The emergence of modern human behavior in South Asia: A review of the current evidence and discussion of its possible implications
- Genetic evidence on modern human dispersals in South Asia: Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA perspectives: The world through the eyes of two haploid genomes
- Cranial diversity in South Asia relative to modern human dispersals and global patterns of human variation
- New Worlds in the Holocene
- Interpreting biological diversity in South Asian prehistory: Early Holocene population affinities and subsistence adaptations
- Population movements in the Indian subcontinent during the protohistoric period: Physical anthropological assessment
- Foragers and forager-traders in South Asian worlds: Some thoughts from the last 10,000 years
- Anthropological, historical, archaeological and genetic perspectives on the origins of caste in South Asia
- Language families and quantitative methods in South Asia and elsewhere
- Duality in Bos indicus mtDNA diversity: Support forgeographical complexity in zebu domestication
- Non-human genetics, agricultural origins and historical linguistics in South Asia
- Concluding Remarks
- Thoughts on The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia
- Human evolution and culture change in the Indian subcontinent
- Human evolution and culture change in the Indian subcontinent