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MEGALITHIC BUILDERS OF SOUTH INDIA: Archaeo-Anthropoligical Investigations on Human Skeletal Remains from Kodumanal

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Pages: xii+140

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-410-5

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 19cm x 25cm

Product Year: 2011

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The report on the Kodumanal human skeletal series is important in many ways. The site of Kodumanal is one of the best excavated, best attended and best reported Early Historic-Megalithic sites of the Indian peninsular region. The report deviates from the conventional anthropological design, and follows bio-cultural approach which provides information on many important facets of this bygone population. For the first time in Indian archaeology the human remains recovered from the excavation are not looked as isolated pieces of evidence for mere description of bodily features, but anthropologists and the excavator are joining hands while interpreting the biological features in terms of literary, epigraphical and archaeological data.

Foreword v Preface vii List of Illustrations xi 1. Kodumanal: Archaeological Settings 1 2. Archaeological Context of the Burials 18 3. Skeletal Preservation and Inventory 32 4. Observations: Morphometry, Pathology and Demography 52 5. Concluding Remarks 118 Bibliography 129 Index 135

Veena Mushrif-Tripathy (Asst. Professor, M.S. University, Vadodara) has wide research experience of excavation, treatment and studies on archaeological skeletal series. She has participated in several Government and University research projects. She has three monographs and several articles to her credit. K. Rajan is Professor and Head, Department of History, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. He discovered more than a thousand archaeological sites in Tamil Nadu through his intensive explorations. He has completed major research projects sponsored by UGC, Indian National Science Academy and ICHR. He has many books to his credit and published more than hundred research papers. Prof. Rajan is also widely acclaimed for his documentation work of South Indian cultural heritage. S.R. Walimbe (Retired Professor and Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Pune, Pune) is a pioneer to pursue bio-cultural approach to understand the nature of bodily adaptations of the extinct Indian populations. Scholar of high repute, Prof. Walimbe has studied more than 50 skeletal populations, and is the leader of the only active research group engaged in human skeletal research in India. He is the promoter for ?ancient DNA? studies in India.

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