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Non-human genetics, agricultural origins and historical linguistics in South Asiaessay 2007 • Fuller, Dorian Q.
Vedic • Asia > South Asia
The author explores the origins of domestication—including the distributions of wild species of plants and animals found throughout South Asia, but mainly in India and Pakistan—as a means of examining agricultural dispersals, human migrations, and la...Finding plant domestication in the Indian subcontinentarticle 2011 • Fuller, Dorian Q.
South Indian Chalcolithic • Asia > South Asia
The author explores areas of possible plant domestication in India and the likely wild progenitors of cultivars, concentrating on five areas: South India, Odisha, the middle Ganges, the Saurashtra Peninsula, and the Indo-Gangetic divide....Dating the Neolithic of South Indiaarticle 2007 • Fuller, Dorian Q. et al.
South Indian Chalcolithic • Asia > South Asia
The authors use Bayesian analysis of newly available radiocarbon dates for South India Neolithic ashmounds along with previous dates to better understand the chronology of ashmounds, herding, and the start of village life....The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in Indiaarticle 2009 • Clarkson, Christopher (Christopher James) et al.
South Asian Upper Paleolithic • Asia > South Asia
In the 4x4m section excavated in the rockshelter, strata C-E pertain to the South Asian Upper Paleolithic Tradition. The findings are discussed (including faunal material, beads, rock art, and human remains), with an emphasis on the microlithic assem...