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Bibliography and Links to Related Websites
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Name	Author	Publisher	Comments
South Asian Prehistory	D P Agarwal and J S Kharakwal	Aryan Books Int'l, New Delhi, India, Year: 2002	Coffee table sized book, but written for the academic community. Lots of color photographs and maps.
God-Apes and Fossil Men, Paleoanthropology in South Asia	Kenneth A R Kennedy	Univ. of Michigan Pr. U.S.A., year: 2000	Massive survey of Indian subcontinent's Prehistory and Paleoanthropology, both historical and technical.
Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory	V. N. Misra and P. Bellwood, eds.	New Delhi: Oxford-IBH, 1985
Acheulian Culture in Peninsular India: An Ecological Perspective	R.S.Pappu	D.K.Printworld (P) Ltd., New Delhi; 2001. ISBN 81-246-0168-2.
Ecological Backgrounds of South Asian Prehistory	K. A. R. Kennedy and G. L. Possehl, eds.	Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ., 1976
Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology of India	Statira Wadia, Ravi Korisettar, Vishwas Kale (ed.)	Geological Society of India, Bangalore, India. Memoir No. 32, 1995	Published in honor of Dr. S. N. Rajguru, upon his retirement from Deccan College. Out of Print.
Pleistocene Fauna of India with Special Reference to the Siwaliks	Badam, G. L.	Deccan College, Pune, 1979
Mesolithic India	Ed. V D Misra and J N Pal	Dept. of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, U.P., 211002, India, 2002	Collection of papers from the National Seminar on Mesolithic India, held at Allahabad in 1996.
Indian Prehistory	Ed. V D Misra and J N Pal	Dept. of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, U.P., 211002, India,1980
Origins of a Civilization: The Prehistory and Early Archaeology of South Asia.	Allchin, Bridget and Raymond	Viking Press, 1997
Living Traditions: Studies in the Ethnoarchaeology of South Asia.	Allchin, Bridget (ed.)	Oxford and IBH Pub. 1994
Indian Protohistory	M K Dhavalikar	1997
Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization	Kenoyer, Jonathan M	Oxford University Press, New York, 1998	It's very refreshing.
Pre-Historic Art in India	Sankalia, H D	Vikas Pub. House, New Delhi	Has one chapter on "Paleolithic Art", the rest devoted to the bronze age.
Prehistoric Men	Braidwood, Robert J.	William Morrow & Co., 1967	Excellent introduction, although a little dated. But still worth reading.
What Happened in History	V. Gordon Childe	Penguin Books, 1964	Very readable. Presents Childe's theories in a very readable manner. Foreword by Grahame Clark
Man Makes Himself	V. Gordon Childe	New American Library, N.Y., 1951	Very readable. Presents Childe's theories in a very readable manner.
Deccan College Publications
ISPQS Publications

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Links to Related Websites

This section contains links to some important and reliable websites. Of course, mining through the Net with any search engine will produce enough stuff to keep you busy for a life time.

Man and Environment, Table of Contents
Purakala, Table of Contents
Puratattva, Table of Contents
Oceanographic Archaeology
Current Science
Archaeological Survey of India
Asiatic Society
Geological Survey of India
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology
Geological Society of India
Govt. of India Web Site section on Culture
List of Museums, Govt. of India Web Site
Govt. of India, HRD Ministry, Annual Reports Archive
Journal of Biosciences
Site about Indus-Sarasvati Culture
Site about Mohenjo Daro, Indus Valley

Pragdhara, Journal of the Directorate of Archaeology, Uttar Pradesh

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Selected Papers and Articles on the 'Net
(in English)

Article - Ancient Trade Route between India and Egypt
Prehistoric Human Colonization of India
Ethnic populations of India as seen from an evolutionary perspective
Austro-Asiatic groups in the peopling of India
Geological context of Lower Pleistocene Palaeolithic sites in Peninsular India
Siwalik Acheulian & Its Chronological Relationship with the Soanian
Acheulian of Isampur excavations and its Dating
Recent findings on the Acheulian of the Hunsgi and Baichbal valleys
Origins of Iron Working in India
UNESCO's Evaluation of Bhimbetka as a World Heritage Site
Saraswati River - migration and extinction
Mohenjo Daro, Indus Valley
Submarine prehistoric archaeology of the Indian Continental Shelf
Ancient harbour at Dwarka
Underwater investigations off Mahabalipuram

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Notes

*Geologically: Humans occupy(ied) the Cenozoic Era, Quaternary Period, Pleistocene or Holocene Epoch.

**Mesolithic: Mesolithic is a brief period, between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic. Its duration ranges from a couple of thousand years in the Near East to more than 20,000 years in parts of Africa, and upto 35,000 years in Shri Lanka. ... The earliest discovery of microliths seem to have been made in India.

Sources:

"Advanced Hunting Gathering Communities in Maharashtra - Mesolithic", V. N. Misra, 2004. K A R Kennedy points out that the term mesolithic meant something quite different in the European and Indian contexts. Maybe that is why some archaeologists, such as Braidwood reject the labels such as paleolithic, mesolithic, neolithic altogether.

The dates given in this table for the pre- and proto- historic periods are very general. As mentioned above, to assign unique dates to different historical periods in a vast area like the Indian Subcontinent, over a long period of time, is not possible. Different parts of the subcontinent have practiced different cultures over different periods of time. Thus it is not uncommon to find Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures existing side by side. Even today one can find people in the hunting, gathering stages and/or using stone tools.

Sonawane2002: "Mesolithic Culture of Gujarat", V. H. Sonavane. Paper in "Mesolithic India", ed. V. D. Mishra and J. N. Pal, Allahabad Univ. 2002.

Some of these articles and papers mentioned above are in pdf format. You need to
download the Acrobat reader to read these, if you do not already have it installed.

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