The Indo-Aryans of ancient South Asia : language, material culture and ethnicity

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1. Language, material culture and ethnicity: Theoretical perspectives / George Erdosy

2. Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia? Biological anthropology and concepts of ancient races / Kenneth A.R. Kennedy

3. Vedic Aryans, non-Vedic Aryans, and non-Aryans: Judging the linguistic evidence of the Veda / Madhav M. Deshpande

4. Early Indian history: Linguistic and textual parametres / Michael Witzel

5. The concepts of "cultural tradition" and "palaeoethnicity" in South Asian archaeology / Jim G. Shaffer and Diane A. Lichtenstein

6. The Avesta as source for the early history of the Iranians / P. Oktor Skjaervo

7. The Aryan question: Some general considerations / Arvind Sharma

8. South Asia from a Central Asian perspective / Fredrik T. Hiebert

9. Central Asia and the Rgveda: The archaeological evidence / Walter A. Fairservis, Jr

10. Interaction systems, specialised crafts and culture change: The Indus Valley Tradition and the Indo-Gangetic Tradition in South Asia / Jonathan M. Kenoyer

11. Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory / Franklin C. Southworth

12. Dialect variation in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan / Kenneth R. Norman

13. On drawing socio-linguistic distinctions in Old Indo-Aryan: The question of Ksatriya Sanskrit and related problems / Richard Salomon

14. Rgvedic history: poets, chieftains and polities / Michael Witzel. 15. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: Textual-linguistic and archaeological evidence / Asko Parpola

16. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: The botanical evidence / Harri Nyberg