Contributions

  • Michael D. Petraglia (Editor) - Contributor
  • Bridget Allchin (Editor) - Contributor

Publication

2007-05-03 - Springer

Language

English

Word Count

116,000 words, Guess

Page Count

464 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007427743
  • LibraryThing8807063
  • Goodreads2265379

Classifications

  • LCCHM545CC1-960QH359-42

Description

(Publisher-supplied data) 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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia: Inter-disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics ... Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology)HardcoverSpringer2007-05-03

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