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Foreword to the Series 8 Preface 11 Contents 20 List of contributors 22 I. Theoretical perspectives 24 1. Language, material culture and ethnicity: Theoretical perspectives 24 2. Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia? Biological anthropology and concepts of ancient races 55 3. Vedic Aryans, non-Vedic Aryans, and non-Aryans: Judging the linguistic evidence of the Veda 90 4. Early Indian history: Linguistic and textual parametres 108 5. The concepts of “cultural tradition” and “palaeoethnicity” in South Asian archaeology 149 6. The Avesta as source for the early history of the Iranians 178 7. The Aryan question: Some general considerations 200 II. Historical perspectives 215 8. South Asia from a Central Asian perspective 215 9. Central Asia and the R?gveda: The archaeological evidence 231 10. Interaction systems, specialised crafts and culture change: The Indus Valley Tradition and the Indo-Gangetic Tradition in South Asia 238 11. Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory 283 12. Dialect variation in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan 303 13. On drawing socio-linguistic distinctions in Old Indo-Aryan: The question

Author

Erdosy, George, Wezler, Albrecht, Witzel, Michael

Published

2012

Language

EN