The evolution and history of human populations in South Asia. Inter-disciplinary studies in archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and genetics / ed. by Petraglia M.D., Allchin A. - Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2007. - 464 p. - (Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series). - ISBN 978-1-4020-5561-4  Место хранения:   088 | Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Preface ................................................... vii Bridget Allchin and Michael D. Petraglia List of Contributors ....................................... xi 1. Human evolution and culture change in the Indian subcontinent ................................................ 1 Michael D. Petraglia and Bridget Allchin Part I. Setting Foundations 2. Afro-Eurasian mammalian fauna and early hominin dispersals ................................................. 23 Alan Turner and Hannah J. О'Regan 3. "Resource-rich, stone-poor": Early hominin land use in large river systems of northern India and Pakistan ......... 41 Robin Dennell 4. Toward developing a basin model for Paleolithic settlement of the Indian subcontinent: Geodynamics, monsoon dynamics, habitat diversity and dispersal routes ... 69 Ravi Korisettar 5. The Acheulean of peninsular India with special reference to the Hungsi and Baichbal valleys of the lower Deccan ..... 97 K. Paddayya 6. Changing trends in the study of a Paleolithic site in India: A century of research at Attirampakkam ............. 121 Shanti Pappu 7. Was Homo heidelbergensis in South Asia? A test using the Narmada fossil from central India ..................... 137 Sheela Athreya Part II. The Modern Scene 8. The Toba supervolcanic eruption: Tephra-fall deposits in India and paleoanthropological implications ............... 173 Sacha C. Jones 9. The emergence of modern human behavior in South Asia: A review of the current evidence and discussion of its possible implications ..................................... 201 Hannah V.A. James 10. Genetic evidence on modern human dispersals in South Asia: Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA perspectives: The world through the eyes of two haploid genomes ......... 229 Phillip Endicott, Mait Metspalu and Toomas Kivisild 11. Cranial diversity in South Asia relative to modern human dispersals and global patterns of human variation ......... 245 Jay T. Stock, Marta Mirazón Lahr and Samanti Kulatilake Part III. New Worlds in the Holocene 12. Interpreting biological diversity in South Asian prehistory: Early Holocene population affinities and subsistence adaptations ................................... 271 John R. Lukacs 13. Population movements in the Indian subcontinent during the protohistoric period: Physical anthropological assessment ................................................ 297 S.R. Walimbe 14. Foragers and forager-traders in South Asian worlds: Some thoughts from the last 10,000 years ....................... 321 Kathleen D. Morrison 15. Anthropological, historical, archaeological and genetic perspectives on the origins of caste in South Asia ........ 341 Nicole Boivin 16. Language families and quantitative methods in South Asia and elsewhere ............................................. 363 April McMahon and Robert McMahon 17. Duality in Bos indicus mtDNA diversity: Support for geographical complexity in zebu domestication ............. 385 David A. Magee, Hideyuki Mannen and Daniel G. Bradley 18. Non-human genetics, agricultural origins and historical linguistics in South Asia ................................. 393 Dorian Q. Fuller Part IV. Concluding Remarks 19. Thoughts on The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia ................................. 447 Gregory L. Possehl Index ......................................................... 461