Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory

Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Poona, December 19-21, 1978

Editors:
Misra
and
Bellwood
Copyright Year:
1985
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1. The Emergence of the Handaxe Tradition in Asia, with Special Reference to India
2. The Geomorphic Setting of Acheulian Sites in Peninsular India
3. On the Problem of Acheulian Chronology in Western and Southern India
4. Some Observations on the Quaternary Stratigraphy of the Central Narmada Valley
5. An Attempt to Understand the Acheulian Succession in India from Spatial Distributions
6. The Acheulian Succession at Bhimbetka, Central India
7. Acheulian Surface Sites in Central India
8. The Acheulian Culture of the Hunsgi Valley, South India: Settlement and Subsistence Patterns
9. The Acheulian Site of Almatti, Karnataka
10. The Acheulian Industries of Uttar Pradesh
11. The Acheulian Industry of Vadamadurai
12. A Comparative Study of Metrical Data on Handaxes and Their Cultural Interpretations
13. Stone Age Cultures of the Upper Mahanadi Valley, Central India
14. On the Discovery of a Pebble-Tool Industry in the Garo Hills, Meghalaya
15. The Microlithic Industries of Africa: Their Antiquity and Possible Economic Implications
16. Rock-shelter Use Today: An Indicator of Usandawe Prehistory
17. Microlithic Industries in India
18. The ‘Blade-Bladelet’ Industries of India
19. Some Observations on the Stone Industries of the Early Holocene in Pakistan and Western India
20. The Upper Palaeolithic Culture at Patne, District Jalgaon, Maharashtra
21. The Upper Palaeolithic Industries of Cuddapah District, Andhra Pradesh
22. The Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in the Gambheeram Valley, Northeastern Andhra Pradesh
23. The Mesolithic Culture of the Indravati Valley, District Koraput, Orissa
24. The Mesolithic Industries of North Kerala
25. Problems of the Upper Palaeolithic in Northeastern India
26. Bhimbetka: The Stone Tool Industries and Rock Paintings
27. The Hunter-Gatherer Way of Life Depicted in the Mesolithic Rock Paintings of Central India
28. Microliths in Indonesian Flaked Stone Industries
29. Holocene Flake and Blade Industries of Wallacea and Their Predecessors
30. A Note on Stone and Shell Implements from Late Palaeolithic and Neolithic Sites in Carcar, Cebu, Philippines
31. Australian Backed Blade Industries in Perspective
32. Microlithic Industries in Western Australia : Some Aspects
33. Backed Blade Industries from the Graman Rock Shelters, New South Wales: Some Evidence on Function
34. The Malimup Middens: Evidence for Mollusc Eating in Prehistoric South-western Australia
35. Annual Crops of South and Southeast Asia
36. Some Problems Relating to the Domestication of Rice in Asia
37. Some Considerations on the Domestication of Plants in India
38. The Uses of Wild Plants and the Processes of Domestication in the Indian Sub-continent
39. The Role and Impact of Nature on Culture: Resplendent Results from the Indian Neolithic
40. Man’s Impact on the Vegetation of Southeast Asia: The Pollen Evidence
41. Agricultural Origins in Southeast Asia: A View from the East
42. Wild Plants and Domestication in Pacific Islands
43. The Uses of Plant Foods by Some Hunter-Gatherer Communities in Andhra Pradesh
44. The Use of Wild Plant Foods by Aboriginal Communities in Central India
45. The Oriomo Papuans: Gathering versus Horticulture in an Ecological Context
46. A Contemporary View of the Shift from Hunting to Horticulture: The Agta Case
47. Hunters/Foodgatherers: An Australian Model
48. Water Resources and Double Cropping in Harappan Food Production
49. From Hunting and Food Gathering to Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Belan and Ganga Valleys
50. The Settlement Pattern of the Painted Grey Ware Culture of the Ganga Valley
51. Early Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in the Deccan
52. Political Evolution in Late Prehistoric Japan
53. Micronesian Prehistory: Research on Ponape, Eastern Caroline Islands
54. The Late Quaternary Fauna of Inamgaon
55. An Approach to Faunal Remains
56. New Evidence for Agriculture and Stock-raising in Monsoonal Southeast Asia
57. Bos indicus and Bos namadicus and the Problem of Autochthonous Domestication in India
58. On the Agriotypes of Domestic Cattle and Pigs in the Indo-Pacific Region
59. Prehistoric Dogs in Australia: An Indian Origin?
60. The Megalithic Problem: A Review
61. The Element of Racial Biology in Indian Megalithism: A Multivariate Analysis Approach
62. Megalithism and the Builders: Studies of Relationships
63. The Earliest Iron Age Graves in Karnataka
64. A Newly Discovered Megalithic Carving in Karnataka
65. Megalithic Remains in the Vindhyas
66. Megalithic Cultures of the Northern Vindhyas
67. The Megaliths of Jangal Mahal, and Vedic Tradition
68. The Megalithic Culture of Kerala
69. A Live Megalithic Culture in Manipur
70. Traces of the South Indian Megalithic in Thailand: A ‘Dolmen’ in a Chedi in U-Thong
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xxv, 525 pp. frontisp., numerous illustrations
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004644472

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