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Bioarchaeology and Climate Change
Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period.
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The Archaeology of the Late Holocene on the Deccan Plateau (The Deccan Chalcolithic)
Chalcolithic and Bronze Age cultures flourished throughout South Asia from 6000 BCE. This chapter discusses the Chalcolithic period from the excavation of the Deccan Chalcolithic sites of Nevasa, Daimabad, and Inamgaon in particular, sites which bridge the gap between post‐Harappan settlements in northern India, the Southern Neolithic, and Early Historic civilization. The Deccan Chalcolithic was distinguished by, and was divided into, culture‐historical phases based on its ceramic styles. The stone tool assemblages are dominated by blade industries, which include geometric and nongeometric microliths, notched arrowheads, and drills. The material culture from different Chalcolithic phases demonstrates that these people had contacts with neighboring regions. Agricultural products, animal husbandry, hunting, and fishing all played an important role in the mixed subsistence economy of the Deccan Chalcolithic. The major form of worship prevalent in the Chalcolithic period is of terracotta mother goddesses and male gods.
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The Center Cannot Hold
This chapter provides a description of osseous markers of metabolic disturbance experienced by infants and children from two very different types of communities bracketing the second millennium BCE: the urban dwellers at Harappa and rural village dwellers in west central India. Climate, economic, culture, and social changes led to the abandonment of settlements at the end of both of these periods. The chapter characterizes the experience of collapse and resilience in regard to specific health changes for the human populations that chose to remain in these settlements. Archaeological evidence suggests that the Late Jorwe represents a time of significant culture change and subsistence transition. The chapter considers evidence for abnormal porosity in the immature skeletons from Harappa and Inamgaon. The patterning of abnormal porosity and other pathological lesions in immature skeletal remains can suggest the presence of metabolic conditions like scurvy.
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Biological relationships derived from morphology of permanent teeth: Recent evidence from prehistoric India
Morphological variation in permanent teeth of prehistoric populations yields clues to their relationships with other prehistoric and living people. This paper documents variation in fourteen variants of the permanent tooth crown for the late Chalcolithic skeletal series from Inamgaon (1600–700 BC), an early farming settlement in western India. In a comparison of the dental morphology profile at Inamgaon with American Indians and American Whites, the people of Inamgaon were found to more closely resemble American Whites. However, specific traits deviated in the direction of Amerindian dental trait frequencies, suggesting gene flow from north and east Asian populations. The dental morphology of the Inamgaon sample is similar to dental patterns characteristic of prehistoric Pakistani samples from Sarai Khola and Timargarha. However, Inamgaon and Timargarha exhibit somewhat more complex crown morphology than the Sarai Khola sample, suggesting a closer relationship between them and greater antiquity of residence in the subcontinent, in contrast to Sarai Khola sample. Morphologische Variationen der Dauerzähne von prähistorischen Bevölkerungen lassen Aussagen über ihre Beziehungen zu anderen prähistorischen und auch rezenten Bevölkerungen zu. In dieser Untersuchung wird über vierzehn Varianten der Zahnkronen von Dauerzähnen einer spätchalkolithischen Skelettserie von Inamgaon (1600–700 v.d.Ztr.) berichtet, einer frühen bäuerlichen Siedlung aus dem westlichen Indien. Zahnmorphologische Vergleiche mit amerikanischen Indianern und Weißen zeigen, daß die Bevölkerung von Inamgaon den amerikanischen Weißen ähnlicher ist. Allerdings konnten verschiedene Merkmale beobachtet werden, in denen Abweichungen in Richtung auf amerikanische Indianer vorliegen. Dies läßt auf Genfluß von nord- und ostasiatischen Populationen schließen. Die Zahnmorphologie der Inamgaon-Stichprobe ist der der prähistorischen Stichproben von Sarai Khola und Timargarha (Pakistan) ähnlich. Die Inamgaon- und Timargarha-Stichproben zeigen jedoch eine komplexere Zahnkronenstruktur als die von Sarai Khola, was auf eine engere Beziehung zwischen diesen beiden hinweist. Außerdem sind sie offenbar älter als die Sarai Khola-Stichprobe.
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