The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and EthnicityGeorge Erdosy No detailed description available for "The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia". |
Contents
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2 Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia? Biological anthropology and concepts of ancient races | 32 |
Judging the linguistic evidence of the Veda | 67 |
Linguistic and textual parametres | 85 |
5 The concepts of cultural tradition and palaeoethnicity in South Asian archaeology | 126 |
6 The Avesta as source for the early history of the Iranians | 155 |
Some general considerations | 177 |
II Historical perspectives | 192 |
IndoAryan and Dravidian prehistory | 258 |
12 Dialect variation in Old and Middle IndoAryan | 278 |
The question of Kṣatriya Sanskrit and related problems | 293 |
poets chieftains and polities | 307 |
Textuallinguistic and archaeological evidence | 353 |
The botanical evidence | 382 |
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The archaeological evidence | 206 |
The Indus Valley Tradition and the IndoGangetic Tradition in South Asia | 213 |
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Afghanistan Allchin ancient archaeological Aryan Asian Asian Studies Bactria Baluchistan Bharatas BMAC Brahman Bronze Age burials Burrow Cambridge cattle Central Asia century B.C. ceramics chronology cultural tradition Dāsa Delhi dialects Dravidian early eastern edited ephedras Erdosy ethnic evidence excavations Fairservis groups haoma Harappan Civilisation Harappan culture Harappan Phase Hiebert hymns important India Indo Indo-Aryan languages Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Iranian languages Indra Indus Civilisation Indus Valley interaction invasion Iran Iranian Jarrige Kenoyer Ksatriya Kuiper later linguistic Margiana Mehrgarh migration millennium B.C. Mitanni Namazga names non-Aryan northern original Pakistan Pāli Panjab Parpola period Persian Possehl prehistoric Pūru region Rgveda Rgvedic ritual river Sanskrit Sarasvati Sarianidi scholars settlements Shaffer Sindhu social Soma soma/haoma South Asia South Asian Archaeology Southworth speakers Subcontinent Sudās tion Trasadasyu tribes Turvaśa University Press Upaniṣads Vasistha Vedas Vedic Vedic texts Volume Ware western Witzel words Yadu