Activity, climate, and postcranial robusticity: implications for modern human origins and scenarios of adaptive change

OM Pearson - Current Anthropology, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
Postcranial robusticity—the massiveness of the skeleton—figures prominently in the debate
over the origin of modern humans. Anthropologists use postcranial robusticity to infer the …

Prehistoric human colonization of India

VN Misra - Journal of Biosciences, 2001 - Springer
Human colonization in India encompasses a span of at least half-a-million years and is
divided into two broad periods, namely the prehistoric (before the emergence of writing) and …

[BOOK][B] God-apes and fossil men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia

KAR Kennedy - 2000 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
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Kenneth A. R Kennedy Page 1 God-apes And Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology Of South Asia …

Activity‐induced patterns of dental abrasion in prehistoric Pakistan: evidence from Mehrgarh and Harappa

JR Lukacs, RF Pastor - American Journal of Physical …, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
A detailed investigation of worn teeth should reveal a record of past activity patterns
including information regarding diet, food preparation methods, and craft or occupational …

Spinal arthritis and physical stress at Bronze Age Harappa

NC Lovell - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines joint changes in the vertebral skeleton in human remains excavated in
1987 and 1988 at Bronze Age Harappa, an urban center of the Indus Valley civilization. The …

A peaceful realm? Trauma and social differentiation at Harappa

GR Schug, K Gray, V Mushrif-Tripathy… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Thousands of settlements stippled the third millennium BC landscape of Pakistan and
northwest India. These communities maintained an extensive exchange network that …

[BOOK][B] Bioarchaeology and climate change: A view from South Asian prehistory

GR Schug - 2017 - books.google.com
" Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along
with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume makes an important contribution to …

Upper pleistocene fossil hominids from Sri Lanka

KAR Kennedy, SU Deraniyagala… - American Journal of …, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
Between 1978 and 1983 hominid skeletal remains were collected from the cave sites of
Batadomba lena and Beli lena Kitulgala in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). These are the most …

Is the Narmada hominid an Indian Homo erectus?

KAR Kennedy, A Sonakia, J Chiment… - American Journal of …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
In 1982 a fossil hominid calvaria was found in a middle Pleistocene deposit in the central
Narmada valley of Madhya Pradesh, India, and was assigned to the new taxon Homo …

Was Homo heidelbergensis in South Asia? A test using the Narmada fossil from central India

S Athreya - The evolution and history of human populations in …, 2007 - Springer
Substantial archaeological evidence from South Asia confirms the fact that hominin
occupation of the Indian subcontinent was widespread by the Middle Pleistocene (Mishra et …