The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia
George Erdosy
The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia : Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity /George Erdosy - Berlin ;Boston : De Gruyter , 2012 - 417 Pages ;24 cm. - Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, 1 .
Frontmatter --
Foreword to the Series --
Preface --
Contents --
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 traditon” 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 Rgveda: 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 Ksatriya 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 --
Backmatter
9783110144475
Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi-110092
History
Indo-Aryan languages.
934 ERD
The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia : Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity /George Erdosy - Berlin ;Boston : De Gruyter , 2012 - 417 Pages ;24 cm. - Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, 1 .
Frontmatter --
Foreword to the Series --
Preface --
Contents --
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 traditon” 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 Rgveda: 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 Ksatriya 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 --
Backmatter
9783110144475
Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi-110092
History
Indo-Aryan languages.
934 ERD
