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A companion to South Asia in the past / edited by Gwen Robbins Schug and Subhash R. Walimbe

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West Sussex : John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2016.
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1 online resource : illustrations, maps
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Walimbe, Subhash R. and Schug, Gwen Robbins
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / Angela R. Lieverse -- 2.Mammalian Paleodiversity and Ecology of Siwalik Primates in India and Nepal / Gwen Robbins Schug / Subhash R. Walimbe -- 3.A Decade of Paleoanthropology in the Indian Subcontinent (2005-2015) / Rajan Gaur -- 4.Archaic Genomes and the Peopling of South Asia / Parth R. Chauhan -- 5.Out of Africa and into South Asia: The Evidence from Paleolithic Archaeology / Mark Stoneking -- 6.Hominin Fossil Remains from the Narmada Valley / Ravi Korisettar -- 7.Mesolithic Foragers of the Ganges Plain and Adjoining Hilly Regions of the Vindhyas / A.R. Sankhyan -- 8.Mesolithic Foragers of the Ganges Plain: Pathology, Stature, and Subsistence / J.N. Pal -- 9.Current Perspectives on the Harappan Civilization / John R. Lukacs -- 10.Excavations at Harappa, 1986-2010: New Insights on the Indus Civilization and Harappan Burial Traditions / Vasant Shinde -- 11.Bioarchaeology of the Indus Valley Civilization: Biological Affinities, Paleopathology, and Chemical Analyses / R.H. Meadow / J.M. Kenoyer -- 12.More than Origins: Refining Migration in the Indus Civilization / Nancy C. Lovell -- 13.Aryans and the Indus Civilization: Archaeological, Skeletal, and Molecular Evidence / Benjamin Valentine -- 14.The Ahar Culture and Others: Social Spectrums of the Mewar Plain / Michel Danino -- 15.The Archaeology of the Late Holocene on the Deccan Plateau (The Deccan Chalcolithic) / Teresa P. Raczek -- 16.The Center Cannot Hold: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Environmental Crisis in the Second Millennium BCE, South Asia / Prabodh Shirvalkar / Esha Prasad -- 17.The "Gandhara Grave Culture": New Perspectives on Protohistoric Cemeteries in Northern and Northwestern Pakistan / Kelly Elaine Blevins / Gwen Robbins Schug -- 18.Early Iron Age Megalith Builders of Vidarbha: A Historical View / Muhammad Zahir -- 19.Situating Iron Age Monuments in South India: A Textual and Ethnographic Approach / P.S. Joshi -- 20.A Review of Early Historic Urbanization in India / K. Rajan -- 21.Historical and Medieval Period Archaeology / Gurudas Shete / Reshma Sawant -- 22.The Transition to Agricultural Production in India: South Asian Entanglements of Domestication / Monica L. Smith -- 23.From Millet to Rice (and Back Again?): Cuisine, Cultivation, and Health in Southern India / Charlene A. Murphy / Dorian Q. Fuller -- 24.Death and Burial among Two Ancient High-Altitude Communities of Nepal / Kathleen D. Morrison -- 25.Prehistoric Archaeology in Bangladesh: An Overview / Jacqueline T. Eng / Mark Aldenderfer -- 26.Archaeology of Nepal / Shahnaj Husne Jahan -- 27.The Peopling of Sri Lanka from Prehistoric to Historic Times: Biological and Archaeological Evidence / Prakash Darnal -- 28.Theoretical Archaeology in India: An Anthropological Perspective / Samanti Kulatilake -- 29.Moving Forward, Looking Back: The Collective Memory of Indian Anthropology / K. Paddayya -- 30.Anthropology and Museums in India / Abhik Ghosh -- 31.Human Skeletal Studies: Changing Trends in Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives / Kishor K. Basa -- 32.Where Are They Now? The Human Skeletal Remains from India / Subhash R. Walimbe.
Summary
A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides a thorough description of research on South Asia's past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. The chapters describe the peopling of South Asia, archaeological and bioarchaeological perspectives on human biocultural diversity in the subcontinent, and points of entry for understanding the meaning of complex phenomena observable in the South Asian context, from urbanism to monument construction, from economic exchange relationships to commodity cult. The authors cover the history of research, major theoretical concerns, current insights, and future challenges for the next generation of scholars working in this region. --
Contributions are provided by a truly global range of expertsùmore than 40 scholars from Bangladesh, Canada, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and the United Statesùfrom a variety of subdisciplinary backgrounds, including palaeoanthropology, archaeology, archaeogenetics, bioarchaeology, isotopic analysis, and history. The diversity of scholarly training represented in this volume provides fresh and sometimes critical perspectives on archaeology and anthropology in South Asia. The result is a volume that provides a unique and definitive resource for anthropologists, South Asianists, and students of these disciplines. --Book Jacket.
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9781119055471 electronic bk.
1119055474 electronic bk.
9781119055280 electronic bk.
1119055288 electronic bk.
9781119055211
1119055210
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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