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Contributors ……iv

Acknowledgements ……. xiii

Foreword by Michel Danino ……. xvii

Preface by V. Nagaraj……. xix

1. Beyond Stones and More Stones: Defining Indian Prehistoric Archaeology by Ravi Korisettar, 1

2. The Hunt for the Last Common Ancestor: Hominoids and Hominins in the Indian Subcontinent by Anek R. Sankhyan, 23

3. The Genus Homo and the African Exodus by Ravi Korisettar, 63

4. Out of Africa, into South Asia: A Review of Archaeological and Genetic Evidence for the Dispersal of Homo sapiens into the Indian Subcontinent by Michael Haslam, Stephen Oppenheimer and Ravi Korisettar, 117

5. Major Issues in South Asian Prehistory and Early History: A View from the Genome by Sheela Athreya, 150

6. Monsoon Climate and Marine Isotopic Stages Over the Indian Subcontinent During the Last 200,000 Years by Shraddha Band, Madhusudan G. Yadava and Rengaswamy Ramesh, 180

7. Quaternary Tephrochronology of the Toba Tuffs and Its Significance with Respect to Archaeological Studies in Peninsular India

by John A. Westgate and Nicholas J. G. Pearce, 199

8. Pleistocene Geoarchaeology of the West Coast of India: Are There Palaeolithic Settlements Submerged in the Continental Shelf?

by Sushama G. Deo and S.N Rajaguru, 234

9. Excavating Limestone Caves in India: The Billa Surgam Experience

by Tam Smith, Jinu Koshy and P Aravazhi, 261

10. Chronological Patterns in the Indian Acheulian Culminating in the Transition to the Middle Palaeolithic by Ceri Shipton, 310

11. Lithics at the Crossroads: A Review of Technological 323 Transitions in South Asia by Chris Clarkson, Clair Harris and Ceri Shipton 323

Subject Index…… 360