A Companion to South Asia in the Past

A Companion to South Asia in the Past
Author: Gwen Robbins Schug
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2016-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1119055377

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

Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia

Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia
Author: Yousuke Kaifu
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 1019
Release: 2015-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1623492777

Despite the obvious geographic importance of eastern Asia in human migration, its discussion in the context of the emergence and dispersal of modern humans has been rare. Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia focuses long-overdue scholarly attention on this under-studied area of the world. Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, this book gathers the work of archaeologists from the Pacific Rim of Asia, Australia, and North America, to address the relative lack of attention given to the emergence of modern human behavior as manifested in Asia during the worldwide dispersal from Africa.

Bhimbetka

Bhimbetka
Author: S. B. Ota
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2008
Genre: Bhimbetka (India)
ISBN:

The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia

The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia
Author: Michael D. Petraglia
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2007-05-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1402055625

This is the first volume of its kind on prehistoric cultures of South Asia. The book brings together archaeologists, biological anthropologists, geneticists and linguists in order to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of human populations residing in the subcontinent. New theories and methodologies presented provide new interpretations about the cultural history and evolution of populations in South Asia.

Gurudakshina

Gurudakshina
Author: Alok Kumar Kanungo
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is a collection of papers in honour of Prof. V. N. Misra, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, and in celebration of a career in Indian archaeology spanning nearly half a century. All the papers included are based on the Ph.D. dissertations of the contributors, divided into two parts - part one covers the basics and theory of the thesis, while part two looks at changes and improvements that the author would have made if he had been carrying out the same research today. The 17 papers cover the period from the Palaeolithic to the early historic age in India, with one on the early historic period in Bangladesh (Rahman). They cover a range of regions, cultural periods and disciplines; including prehistory, protohistory, and early historic, with one paper on archaeozoology and one on ethnoarchaeology (Thomas and Ansari).