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SOUTH ASIAN PREHISTORY

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Pages: xvi+268

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-236-1

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 22cm x 28cm

Product Year: 2002

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This book on South Asian prehistory covers the story of humans from the beginning of the Stone Age to the advent of agriculture and animal husbandry. The authors have not confined themselves to merely typological descriptions of tools but have tried to look beyond ? to the humans and their society that created them. As the authors have done considerable work on palaeoenvironment of Kashmir and Rajasthan, they have provided an environmental backdrop to the history of human cultures in the subcontinent. They have also provided a chronological framework to Stone Age Cultures based on a variety of physical techniques. This is the first time that the South Asian Stone Age Cultures are being described in a multidisciplinary framework. The book gives an interesting backdrop of the latest findings of hominids from Africa and other continents. It starts with the Early and Middle Palaeolithic Cultures and then devotes a chapter to the transitional Stone Age Cultures, which eventually led to domestication of plants and animals. The chapter on Early Farming Cultures not only gives regional pictures of the Neolithic Culture but also discusses the far fetched effects of the major transition from hunting and food collecting to agriculture. It shows that the agriculture revolution has been a mixed blessing as in its wake have come a variety of diseases, epidemics and other calamities. A full chapter has been devoted to rock art studies, giving an up-to-date summary of the regional rock art traditions of the South, of the Himalayas and of Central India. In the concluding chapter the authors summarise the evidence and also point towards the need for further research in various related fields. The book is profusely illustrated with maps, line drawings and plates and will be useful for the laymen, students and the scholars alike.

Preface List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Environmental Changes 3. Palaeolithic Cultures 4. The Transitional Cultures: Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic 5. Prehistoric Rock Art 6. Early Farming Cultures 7. The Role of Central Himalayas in the Archaeology of North India 8. Conclusions Bibliography Index

In the course of his long academic career, Prof. D.P. Agrawal has worked with the Archaeological Survey of India, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay and Physical Research Laboratory (PRI), Ahmedabad. His research contribution have been varied and multidisciplinary ? mainly in the field of palaeoenvionment, prehistoric archaeology, radiocarbon & TL dating and archaeometallurgy. His main areas of work have been: Kashmir, Central Himalayas and Rajasthan. Prof. Agrawal has specialized in the use of scientific techniques for archaeological research. He has also made fundamental theoretical contributions in the fields of language and evolution, flaking mechanics, archaeological theories and concept of time. He has published 16 books and about 250 papers. He was a member of the advisory board of World Archaeology, Le? Anthroplogie and has edited Man & Environment for number of years. He retired as a senior professor and chairman of the large multidisciplinary group at Physical Research Laboratory. At present, he is Project Director of Traditional Knowledge Systems in Uttaranchal, sponsored by Infinity Foundation. Dr. Jeewan S. Kharakwal did his masters in Ancient Indian History and Archaeology from Kumaun Univeristy and Ph.D. from Deccan Collage, Pune. He teaches South Asian Archaeology at the Institute of Rajasthan Studies, Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Udaipur. He has carried out extensive archaeological, ethnographic and archaeometallurgical explorations in Kumaun and Rajasthan with Profs. D.P. Agrawal, V.N. Misra and V.S. Shinde. Currently he is working on archaeometallurgical sites in western India. He was a visiting JSPS fellow at International Research Center for Japanese Studies for one and a half years (2000-2002). He has published a book titled Central Himalayas: An Archaeological Linguistic and Cultural Synthesis (1998) jointly with Prof. D.P. Agrawal.

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