(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. Human Evolution And Culture Change In The Indian Subcontinent / Michael D. Petraglia And Bridget Allchin -- Afro-eurasian Mammalian Fauna And Early Hominin Dispersals / Alan Turner And Hannah J. O'regan -- Resource-rich, Stone-poor : Early Hominin Land Use In Large River Systems Of Northern India And Pakistan / Robin Dennell -- Toward Developing A Basin Model For Paelolithic Settlement Of The Indian Subcontinent : Geodynamics, Monsoon Dynamics, Habitat Diversity And Dispersal Routes / Ravi Korisettar -- The Acheulean Of Peninsular India With Special Reference To The Hungsi And Baichbal Valleys Of The Lower Deccan / K. Paddayya -- Changing Trends In The Study Of A Paleolithic Site In India : A Century Of Research At Attirampakkam / Shanti Pappu -- Was Homo Heidelbergensis In South Asia? A Test Using The Narmada Fossil From Central India / Sheela Athreya -- The Toba Supervolcanic Eruption : Tephra-fall Deposits In India And Paleoanthropological Implications / Sacha C. Jones -- The Emergence Of Modern Human Behavior In South Asia : A Review Of The Current Evidence And Discussion Of Its Possible Implications / Hannah V.a. James -- Genetic Evidence On Modern Human Dispersals In South Asia : Y Chromosome And Mitochondrial Dna Perspectives : The World Through The Eyes Of Two Haploid Genomes / Phillip Endicott, Matt Metspalu And Toomas Kivisild -- Cranial Diversity In South Asia Relative To Modern Human Dispersals And Global Patterns Of Human Variation / Jay T. Stock, Marta MirazΓ³n Lahr And Samanti Kulatilake -- Interpreting Biological Diversity In South Asian Prehistory : Early Holocene Population Affinities And Subsistence Adaptions / John R. Lukacs -- Population Movements In The Indian Subcontinent During The Protohistoric Period : Physical Anthropological Assessment / S.r. Walimbe -- Foragers And Forager-traders In South Asian Worlds : Some Thoughts From The Last 10,000 Years / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Anthropological, Historical, Archaeological And Genetic Perspectives On The Origins Of Caste In South Asia / Nicole Boivin -- Language Families And Quantitative Methods In South Asia And Elsewhere / April Mccmahon And Robert Mcmahon -- Duality In Bos Indicus Mtdna Diversity : Support For Geographical Complexity In Zebu Domestication / David A. Magee, Hideyuki Mannen And Daniel G. Bradley -- Non-human Genetics, Agricultural Origins And Historical Linguistics In South Asia / Corian Q Fuller -- Thoughts On The Evolution And History Of Human Populations In South Asia / Gregory L. Possehl. Edited By Michael D. Petraglia, Bridget Allchin. Papers Originally Presented At A Conference Held Nov. 26-27, 2004 At Brooklands House, Cambridge. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.