TY - BOOK AU - George Erdosy AU - George Erdosy TI - The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia : : Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity T2 - Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, 1 SN - 9783110144475 U1 - 934 ERD PY - 2012/// CY - Berlin ;Boston PB - : De Gruyter KW - History KW - Indo-Aryan languages N1 - 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 ER -