The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia Inter-disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Petraglia, Michael D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Allchin, Bridget (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
• Σειρά: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Human genetics.; Evolutionary biology.; Vertebrates.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Human Genetics.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: XIII, 465 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781402055621
• ISSN: 1877-9077

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 evolution of human populations residing in the subcontinent. A wide range of topics and issues are addressed in this book, including hominin adaptations, behaviours, and dispersals; the origin and spread of food producing economies; and the cultural, biological and genetic relationship of foragers and settled communities. New theories, methodologies and interpretations presented in this book are bound to have a profound effect on the way in which the cultural record of South Asia is perceived and how this evolutionary history relates to events in the wider world.