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Informationen zum Autor Gwen Robbins Schug is an Associate Professor of biological anthropology at Appalachian State University (Boone, NC). She is the author of Bioarchaeology and Climate Change: A View from South Asian Prehistory (2011). Her research has been widely published in academic journals and covered in Science Magazine, National Geographic, Science Daily, The New Yorker Magazine, and The New York Times . Subhash Walimbe was Professor of biological anthropology at Deccan College Post-Graduate Research Institute and the Head of Department at Pune University before retiring in 2010. He is the author of nine books and more than 80 research articles on South Asian prehistory. His research has been funded by National Geographic, Smithsonian Institution, and the Ford Foundation, among others. He serves on the advisory committee to several Indian Universities and the Government of India research establishments. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvii Formal Dedication xviii V.N. Misra Foreword xx Angela R. Lieverse Maps xxvi 1 Introduction 1 Gwen Robbins Schug and Subhash R. Walimbe Part I Paleoanthropology in South Asia 11 2 Mammalian Paleodiversity and Ecology of Siwalik Primates in India and Nepal 13 Rajan Gaur 3 A Decade of Paleoanthropology in the Indian Subcontinent (2005-2015) 32 Parth R. Chauhan 4 Archaic Genomes and the Peopling of South Asia 51 Mark Stoneking 5 Out of Africa and into South Asia: The Evidence from Paleolithic Archaeology 60 Ravi Korisettar 6 Hominin Fossil Remains from the Narmada Valley 72 A.R. Sankhyan 7 Mesolithic Foragers of the Ganges Plain and Adjoining Hilly Regions of the Vindhyas 86 J.N. Pal 8 Mesolithic Foragers of the Ganges Plain: Pathology, Stature, and Subsistence 101 John R. Lukacs Part II Middle Holocene Farmers and Urban Dwellers 125 9 Current Perspectives on the Harappan Civilization 127 Vasant Shinde 10 Excavations at Harappa, 1986-2010: New Insights on the Indus Civilization and Harappan Burial Traditions 145 J.M. Kenoyer and R.H. Meadow 11 Bioarchaeology of the Indus Valley Civilization: Biological Affinities, Paleopathology, and Chemical Analyses 169 Nancy C. Lovell 12 More than Origins: Refining Migration in the Indus Civilization 187 Benjamin Valentine 13 Aryans and the Indus Civilization: Archaeological, Skeletal, and Molecular Evidence 205 Michel Danino 14 The Ahar Culture and Others: Social Spectrums of the Mewar Plain 225 Teresa P. Racz...