Eclectic Arcana

Selected Bibliography (in English)

Name Author Publisher Comments
Chirand: Excavation Report 1961-1964 and 1967-1970 B. S. Verma Dept of Archaeology (Dept. of Youth, Art and Culture, Govt. of Bihar), 2007 Official report of the excavation, written by the excavator of Chirand, several years after the excavation.
South Asian Prehistory D P Agarwal and J S Kharakwal Aryan Books Int'l, New Delhi, India, 2002 Coffee table style book, but written for the academic community. Lots of color photographs and maps.
Prehistory of India H. D. Sankalia Munshi Ram, Manohar Lal, New Delhi, India, 1977
Mesolithic Damdama: Dental Histology and Age Estimation Gwen Robbins, V D. Misra, J. N. Pal and M. C. Gupta Dept of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, Univ. of Allahabad, Allahabad, 2003
God-Apes and Fossil Men, Paleoanthropology in South Asia Kenneth A R Kennedy Univ. of Michigan Press, U.S.A., 2000 Massive historical survey of Indian subcontinent's Prehistory and Paleoanthropology written by a leading Paleoanthropologist.
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: 1980, pp.308-312, Ed. Misra,V.D. and Pal, J.N. Dept. of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology,
University of Allahabad,
Allahabad, U.P., 211002, India, 2002

Culture, Ecology, and Dental Anthropology. J.R. Lukacs (ed.). Journal of Human Ecology, Special Issue. 2:215-228. Indian Society for Human Ecology. Delhi, India: Kamla-Raj Enterprises.
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 Viking Press. 1997
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

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General Reading - Prehistory and Proto-history


ØThe Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities by Dilip K. Chakrabarti, 1995
Oxford Univ. Press
ØArchaeology: Theory Methods and Practice by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn, 2000 (3rd. Ed.)
Thames and Hudson
ØThe Idea of Prehistory by Glyn Daniel and Colin Renfrew, 1988
Univ. Pres, Edinburgh
ØOrigins by Richard E Leaky and Roger Lewin, 1977
E.P. Dutton, N.Y.
ØOrigins Reconsidered by Richard E Leaky and Roger Lewin

ØLucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey, 1981
Simon and Schuster, New York
ØLucy's Child by Donald Johanson and James Shreeve, 1989
William Morrow and Co., New York
ØJava Man by Garniss Curtis, Carl Swisher and Roger Lewin, 2000
Little, Brown, U.K.
ØThe Wisdom of Bones: In Search of Human Origins by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman, 1996
Phoenix, Orion Books Ltd.
ØAncestors: In search of Human Origins by Donald Johanson, Lenora Johanson and Blake Edgar, 1994
Villard Books, N.Y.
ØScience-based Dating in Archaeology by M. J. Aitken, 1990
Longman Group, U.K.
ØDigging Up Bones by D. R. Brothwell, 1972
British Museum, U.K. Longman Group, U.K.
ØIntroduction to Physical Anthropology
by Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Wenda Trevathan and Harry Nelson, 2003
Thompson Press, U.S.A.
ØZooarchaeology by Elizabeth J. Reitz and Elizabeth S. Wing
Cambridge Univ. Press, U.K. Longman Group, U.K.

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