The Indo-Aryans of ancient South Asia : language, material culture and ethnicity

Foreword to the Series

Preface

List of contributors

I. Theoretical perspectives

1. Language, material culture and ethnicity: Theoretical perspectives / Erdosy, George

2. Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia? Biological anthropology and concepts of ancient races / Kennedy, Kenneth A. R

3. Vedic Aryans, non-Vedic Aryans, and non-Aryans: Judging the linguistic evidence of the Veda / Deshpande, Madhav M

4. Early Indian history: Linguistic and textual parametres / Witzel, Michael

5. The concepts of "cultural traditon" and "palaeoethnicity" in South Asian archaeology / Shaffer, Jim G. and Lichtenstein, Diane A

6. The Avesta as source for the early history of the Iranians / Skjaervø, P. Oktor

7. The Aryan question: Some general considerations / Sharma, Arvind

II Historical perspectives

8. South Asia from a Central Asian perspective / Hiebert, Fredrik T

9. Central Asia and the Rgveda: The archaeological evidence / Fairservis, Walter A

10. Interaction systems, specialised crafts and culture change: The Indus Valley Tradition and the Indo-Gangetic Tradition in South Asia / Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark

11. Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory / Southworth, Franklin C

12. Dialect variation in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan / Norman, K.R

13. On drawing socio-linguistic distinctions in Old Indo-Aryan: The question of Ksatriya Sanskrit and related problems / Salomon, Richard

14. Ṛgvedic history: poets, chieftains and polities / Witzel, Michael

15. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: Textual-linguistic and archaeological evidence / Parpola, Asko

16. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: The botanical evidence / Nyberg, Harri

Author Index

General Index