Schug Gwen Robbins, Walimbe Subhash R. (eds). A Companion to South Asia in the Past

Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 599 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology; 31). — ISBN: 9781119055488.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.Formal Dedication (V.N. Misra).
Foreword (Angela R. Lieverse).
Maps.
Introduction (Gwen Robbins Schug and Subhash R. Walimbe).
Paleoanthropology in South Asia.
Mammalian Paleodiversity and Ecology of Siwalik Primates in India and Nepal (Rajan Gaur).
A Decade of Paleoanthropology in the Indian Subcontinent (2005–2015) (Parth R. Chauhan).
Archaic Genomes and the Peopling of South Asia (Mark Stoneking).
Out of Africa and into South Asia: The Evidence from Paleolithic Archaeology (Ravi Korisettar).
Hominin Fossil Remains from the Narmada Valley (A.R. Sankhyan).
Mesolithic Foragers of the Ganges Plain and Adjoining Hilly Regions of the Vindhyas (J.N. Pal).
Mesolithic Foragers of the Ganges Plain: Pathology, Stature, and Subsistence (John R. Lukacs).
Middle Holocene Farmers and Urban Dwellers.
Current Perspectives on the Harappan Civilization (Vasant Shinde).
Excavations at Harappa, 1986–2010: New Insights on the Indus Civilization and Harappan Burial Traditions (J.M. Kenoyer and R.H. Meadow).
Bioarchaeology of the Indus Valley Civilization: Biological Affinities, Paleopathology, and Chemical Analyses (Nancy C. Lovell).
More than Origins: Refining Migration in the Indus Civilization (Benjamin Valentine).
Aryans and the Indus Civilization: Archaeological, Skeletal, and Molecular Evidence (Michel Danino).
The Ahar Culture and Others: Social Spectrums of the Mewar Plain (Teresa P. Raczek).
The Archaeology of the Late Holocene on the Deccan Plateau ((The Deccan Chalcolithic) (Prabodh Shirvalkar and Esha Prasad).
The Center Cannot Hold: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Environmental Crisis in the Second Millennium bce, South Asia (Gwen Robbins Schug and Kelly Elaine Blevins).
The “Gandhara Grave Culture”: New Perspectives on Protohistoric Cemeteries in Northern and Northwestern Pakistan (Muhammad Zahir).
Historic Archaeology: Monuments and Meaning.
Early Iron Age Megalith Builders of Vidarbha: A Historical View (P.S. Joshi).
Situating Iron Age Monuments in South India: A Textual and Ethnographic Approach (K. Rajan).
A Review of Early Historic Urbanization in India (Reshma Sawant and Gurudas Shete).
Historical and Medieval Period Archaeology (Monica L. Smith).
The Transition to Agricultural Production in India: South Asian Entanglements of Domestication (Charlene A. Murphy and Dorian Q. Fuller).
From Millet to Rice (and Back Again?): Cuisine, Cultivation and Health in Southern India (Kathleen D. Morrison).
Death and Burial among Two Ancient High‐Altitude Communities of Nepal (Mark Aldenderfer and Jacqueline T. Eng).
South Asia in Retrospect.
Prehistoric Archaeology in Bangladesh: An Overview (Shahnaj Husne Jahan).
Archaeology of Nepal (Prakash Darnal).
The Peopling of Sri Lanka from Prehistoric to Historic Times: Biological and Archaeological Evidence (Samanti Kulatilake).
Theoretical Archaeology in India: An Anthropological Perspective (K. Paddayya).
Moving Forward, Looking Back: The Collective Memory of Indian Anthropology (Abhik Ghosh).
Anthropology and Museums in India (Kishor K. Basa).
Human Skeletal Studies: Changing Trends in Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives (Subhash R. Walimbe).
Where Are They Now? The Human Skeletal Remains from India (V. Mushrif-Tripathy, K.S. Chakraborty, and S. Lahiri).