Browsing Asian Perspectives, 2003 - Volume 42, Number 2 (Fall) by Subject "South Asia"

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Chera, Chola, Pandya: Using Archaeological Evidence to Identify the Tamil Kingdoms of Early Historic South India

Abraham, Shinu A (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2003)

For the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the most important documentary source for information on early South lndian culture is a body of prose poetry known as the Sangam anthology. These indigenous texts ...
Recasting the Foundations: New Approaches to Regional Understandings of South Asian Archaeology and the Problem of Culture History

Johansen, Peter G (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2003)

The archaeological record of South Asia's rich and diverse past has been largely dominated by interpretational frameworks, which have the construction of culture histories as their core, if not their end. Normative and ...
The Uninvited Skeleton at the Archaeological Table: The Crisis of Paleoanthropology in South Asia in the Twenty-first Century

Kennedy, Kenneth A R (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2003)

Emerging from the philological-historical approaches of the eighteenth-century Orientalists, the scientific study of the hominid fossil record and prehistory of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and their borderlands) ...