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God Apes and Fossil Men:

Paleoanthropology of South Asia
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University of Michigan Press, 2000 - Social Science - 480 pages
Until recently the scientific study of the prehistoric peoples of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the South Asian borderlands has been neglected, beyond some cursory comments in the popular literature about archaeological discoveries. Here is a book that offers much more: a broad survey of all prehistoric cultures of the Indian subcontinent from Paleolithic to Iron Age times.
Written in a style accessible to the general reader, the book pioneers a new approach involving the integration of data from archaeological, paleontological, ecological, and anthropological investigations to offer a comprehensive picture of the origins, diversity, and lifeways of southern Asian populations. Complex scientific ideas are clearly and carefully explained in early chapters as the author considers the theories of human origins in Asia and the significance of the fossils of anthropoid apes recovered from the Siwalik hills (the "God-Apes"). Thereafter the text carries the story of human life on the subcontinent through distinct cultural periods from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age.
Over the course of the book Kenneth A. R. Kennedy demonstrates that South Asian paleoanthropology has been formed by two intellectual forces: Western scientific traditions and native Vedic traditions. The interactions of Western and South Asian scholars have produced a unique approach to the study of ancient populations in this part of the world.
No other book exists today on this subject, and God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthro-pology of South Asia serves as a model for future studies of ancient peoples and places.
Kenneth A. R. Kennedy is Professor of Ecology, Anthropology, and Asian Studies in the Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University. He has over thirty-five years of field and laboratory research in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the borderlands.
  

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Contents

This Land of Bharata
1
Map of south Asia Political divisions
2
Map of south Asia Geographical and cultural regions
3
Triassic times and late Cretaceous times
6
Geological timescale
7
Establishing the Archaeological Record
11
Robert Bruce Foote 18341912
12
Paleolithic handaxe from Palavaram collected in 1863 by Robert Bruce Foote
13
PostPleistocene Landscapes and Cultural Chronology
189
Map of mesolithic sites
192
Microlithic tools from south Asia
195
Mesolithic HunterForagers
200
Mesolithic hunters at Bhimbetka
208
Map of Sri Lanka Political divisions and prehistoric sites
219
Entrance to Batadomba Lena cave Sri Lanka
220
The Skeletal Record of Mesolithic Populations
224

Nilagiri sepulchral remains
14
Sir William Jones 174694
15
Fort William Calcutta ca 1780 Location of the founding of the Asiatic Society
16
Types of prehistoric stone tools from European sites
24
Stratigraphic section cut by Attrampakkam nullah at Numbacum village
27
Stone tools from northern Madras district
28
Paleontology and Evolution
32
Locations of early fossil discoveries in south Asia
39
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach 17521840
52
a Skull of a native of Hindustan which James Cowles Prichard identified as Caucasian b Hindu skull described by Josiah Nott and George Robbins Gl...
53
Phylogeneric tree of hominidpongid evolution
60
Offices and museum building of the Asiatic Society Calcutta ca 1828
66
The Aryan Hordes
67
A Tuda family of the Neilgherry Hills or Blue Mountains of Coimbatore
72
Native of the Garrow Hills in his Wardress
73
A Vadda or Wild Man
77
The GodApes of the Siwalik Hills
86
Map of Neogene fossil hominoid localities
91
Fossil Quadrumanous canine
95
Mandible of Gigantopithecus bilaspurensis
100
Cranium of Sivapithecus indicus from Kaulial in the Potwar plateau Pakistan
112
Past and present placement of Ramapithecus Sivapithecus indicus in phylogenetic trees of hominoid evolution
119
The Earliest Evidence of Hominid
121
Mileposts in the Paleolithic Journey
137
Map of paleolithic sites
142
Fossil Hominids of the South Asian Pleistocene
172
Calvaria of the fossil hominid from Hathnora Narmada valley found by Arun Sonakia
179
Mahadaha double burial grave 5
231
Mahadaha burial grave 12
232
Early Farmers and Pastoralists
242
Map of early farming and pastoral sites
249
The Skeletal Record of Early
278
Sasanka Sekhar Sarkar 190869
283
The Harappan Civilization
290
Map of Harappan and other sites in the northwestern sector of south Asia
292
neonate
294
Biraja Sankar Guha 18941961
299
Chapter ly The Harappan Heritage
308
Map of chalcolithic sites
311
Double adult burial in a late Jorwe cemetery at Inamgaon of a male and female
321
The Megalith Builders
326
Map of Iron Age megalithic sites
329
Cairn cemetery at Jewurgi excavated by Phillip Meadows Taylor in the 18505
332
Skull removed from a cairn at Jewurgi by Phillip Meadows Taylor
333
Remains of barrows near Nagpur India described by J H RivettCarnac
351
Recent megalithic structures erected by Chota Maria Gond tribal populations of Chanda district Maharashtra India
355
Where Did All the Races Go?
358
Dhirendra Nath Majumdar 190360
359
Vedda males of Sri Lanka ca 1900
362
Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt 18921965
366
Conspectus
381
Dancers and a hunting scene from Bhimbetka caves paleolithic and mesolithic periods
385
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Kenneth A. R. Kennedy is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University.

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TitleGod Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia
AuthorKenneth A.R. Kennedy
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press, 2000
ISBN0472110136, 9780472110131
Length480 pages
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