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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Petraglia, Michael D. (Editor ), Allchin, Bridget (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
Temas:
Anthropology.
Archaeology.
Evolution (Biology).
Vertebrates.
Medical genetics.
Evolutionary Biology.
Vertebrate Zoology.
Medical Genetics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 for geographical 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.

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