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.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.