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• Contents
• Contributors                                                                                                                                  ix
•  Acknowledgements                                                                                                                   xiii
•  Foreword: Stories from Beyond Stones and More Stones                                               xvii
• Vamsee Juluri
•  Publisher’S Note                                                                                                                        xxi

1. Nagaraj

•     Prologue

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

•    Subcontinent
•    Ravi korisettar
•    People of the Half-way House: Agro-Pastoral Cultures

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

•     A Current Synthesis

1. Q. Fuller and Charlene Murphy

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

•     Maidan Region of South Deccan, South India

1. 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

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

•     Ravi Korisettar

9. Cognitive interpretation of Indian Rock Art in Perspective                       298-315

•    Urmi Gohsh-Biswas and V.H. Sonawane

10. 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

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

•      Deccan: Legacies, Understandings and New Directions
•      David Robinson

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

•      Recent Survey

1. Arjun

• Epilogue

1. 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