Preface ....................................................... vii
Bridget Allchin and Michael D. Petraglia
List of Contributors ........................................... xi
1. Human evolution and culture change in the Indian
subcontinent ................................................. 1
Michael D. Petraglia and Bridget Allchin
Part I. Setting Foundations
2. Afro-Eurasian mammalian fauna and early hominin
dispersals .................................................. 23
Alan Turner and Hannah J. О 'Regan
3. "Resource-rich, stone-poor": Early hominin land use in
large river systems of northern India and Pakistan .......... 41
Robin Dennell
4. Toward developing a basin model for Paleolithic
settlement of the Indian subcontinent: Geodynamics,
monsoon dynamics, habitat diversity and dispersal routes .... 69
Ravi Korisettar
5. The Acheulean of peninsular India with special reference
to the Hungsi and Baichbal valleys of the lower Deccan ...... 97
K. Paddayya
6. Changing trends in the study of a Paleolithic site in
India: A century of research at Attirampakkam .............. 121
Shanti Pappu
7. Was Homo heidelbergensis in South Asia? A test using
the Narmada fossil from central India ...................... 137
Sheela Athreya
Part II. The Modern Scene
8. The Toba supervolcanic eruption: Tephra-fall deposits
in India and paleoanthropological implications ............. 173
Sacha C. Jones
9. The emergence of modern human behavior in South Asia:
A review of the current evidence and discussion of its
possible implications ...................................... 201
Hannah V.A. James
10.Genetic evidence on modern human dispersals in South
Asia: Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA perspectives:
The world through the eyes of two haploid genomes .......... 229
Phillip Endicott, Mait Metspalu and Toomas Kivisild
11.Cranial diversity in South Asia relative to modern
human dispersals and global patterns of human variation .... 245
Jay T. Stock, Marta Mirazon Lahr and Samanti
Kulatilake
Part III. New Worlds in the Holocene
12.Interpreting biological diversity in South Asian
prehistory: Early Holocene population affinities and
subsistence adaptations .................................... 271
John R. Lukacs
13.Population movements in the Indian subcontinent
during the protohistoric period: Physical anthropological
assessment ................................................. 297
S.R. Walimbe
14.Foragers and forager-traders in South Asian worlds: Some
thoughts from the last 10,000 years ........................ 321
Kathleen D. Morrison
15.Anthropological, historical, archaeological and genetic
perspectives on the origins of caste in South Asia ......... 341
Nicole Boivin
16.Language families and quantitative methods in South Asia
and elsewhere .............................................. 363
April McMahon and Robert McMahon
17.Duality in Bos indicus mtDNA diversity: Support for
geographical complexity in zebu domestication .............. 385
David A. Magee, Hideyuki Mannen and Daniel G. Bradley
18.Non-human genetics, agricultural origins and historical
linguistics in South Asia .................................. 393
Dorian Q. Fuller
Part IV. Concluding Remarks
19.Thoughts on The Evolution and History of Human
Populations in South Asia .................................. 447
Gregory L. Possehl
Index ......................................................... 461
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