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

eBook, English, 1995
Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1995
Aufsatzsammlung
1 online resource (xxii, 417 pages) : illustrations, maps
9783110816433, 3110816431
857490772
""Foreword To The Series ""; ""Preface ""; ""List Of Contributors ""; ""I. Theoretical Perspectives ""; ""1. Language, Material Culture And Ethnicity: Theoretical Perspectives ""; ""2. Have Aryans Been Identified In The Prehistoric Skeletal Record From South Asia? Biological Anthropology And Concepts Of Ancient Races ""; ""3. Vedic Aryans, Non-Vedic Aryans, And Non-Aryans: Judging The Linguistic Evidence Of The Veda ""; ""4. Early Indian History: Linguistic And Textual Parametres ""; ""5. The Concepts Of “Cultural Tradition� And “Palaeoethnicity� In South Asian Archaeology "" 6. The Avesta As Source For The Early History Of The Iranians 7. The Aryan Question: Some General Considerations
Ii. Historical Perspectives
8. South Asia From A Central Asian Perspective
9. Central Asia And The R?Gveda: The Archaeological Evidence
10. Interaction Systems, Specialised Crafts And Culture Change: The Indus Valley Tradition And The Indo-Gangetic Tradition In South Asia
11. Reconstructing Social Context From Language: Indo-Aryan And Dravidian Prehistory
12. Dialect Variation In Old And Middle Indo-Aryan ""13. On Drawing Socio-Linguistic Distinctions In Old Indo-Aryan: The Question Of KṣAtriya Sanskrit And Related Problems """"14. ṚGvedic History: Poets, Chieftains And Polities ""; ""15. The Problem Of The Aryans And The Soma: Textual-Linguistic And Archaeological Evidence ""; ""16. The Problem Of The Aryans And The Soma: The Botanical Evidence ""; ""Author Index ""; ""General Index ""
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