Inter-disciplinary perspectives on Indian paleoanthropology and prehistory

摘要

As highlighted in recent years, the Indian Subcontinent has an important role to play in human origins research, especially to help link the Asian evidence with the Levant, Europe and Africa. Located in the center of the Old World, South Asia represents the easternmost frontier of Acheulean expansions (i.e. Movius Line), has a lengthy history of seasonal monsoon patterns, exhibits unique regional cultural and paleontological records, contains the largest terrestrial source of tephra from the Toba volcano in Java and is home to the genetically-oldest modern human populations outside of Africa. This special volume represents a conference/