Description

Contributors - ix

Acknowledgements - xiii

Foreword: Stories from Beyond Stones and More Stones  - xvii

Vamsee Juluri

Publisher’S Note - xxi

Nagaraj

Prologue

Beyond Stones and More Stones: Domestication of the Indian - 1-14

Subcontinent Ravi korisettar

People of the Half-way House: Agro-Pastoral Cultures

Agricultural Origins and Frontiers in the Indian Subcontinent:                     15-94

A Current Synthesis

Q. Fuller and Charlene Murphy

The Emergence of Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Northern                  95-126

Maidan Region of South Deccan, South India

Boivin, D.Q. Fuller, Ravi Korisettar, Ayushi Nayak and

Michael Petraglia

4.Neolithic-Megalithic Zooarchaeology of Southern India - 127-144

Stephanie Meece

5.Lost Millets and Overlooked Pulses: Advances in Understanding - 145-169

Early Agricultural Developments in South India

D.Q. Fuller and Eleonar Kingwell-Banham

The First Monument Builders of the Indian Peninsula

6.Issues and Problems of Ashmound Research in the Neolithic South - 170-207

Deccan: Contemporary Perspectives

Peter Johansen

7.Megaliths: New Perspectives for Future Studies  - 208-256

Srikumar M. Menon

The First Artists: Human-Animal Relationships

Prehistoric Rock Art Studies in India: V.S. Wakankar and After               257-297

Ravi Korisettar

Cognitive interpretation of Indian Rock Art in Perspective                       298-315

Urmi Gohsh-Biswas and V.H. Sonawane

Painted Rockshelters in the Erramalai Tablelands (Mesas),                     316-343

Proterozoic Kurnool Basin, Andhra Pradesh

Jinu Koshy, Malar Koshy, Ravi Korisettar, Ajay Kumar and

Ramesh Masethung

Neolithic-Megalithic Rock Art of Northern Maidan, South                     344-376

Deccan: Legacies, Understandings and New Directions

David Robinson

Neolithic-Iron Age Rock Art in the Northern Maidan of Karnataka:      377-400

Recent Survey

Arjun

Epilogue

Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cultural Trajectories and Regional               401-459                      Environments of the Indian Subcontinent: Geodynamics, Holocene

Monsoon Dynamics, Geomorphic Provinces and Cultural Unity in

Diversity

Ravi Korisettar

Index    - 460-493