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LINGUISTICS (I)

  Munda
      N. ZIDE: Introduction
      D. STAMPE: The current state of Munda and Austroasiatic studies, with special reference to lexicography
      G. ANDERSON: Recent Advances in the Reconstruction of Proto-Munda and Proto-Austroasiatic Morphology
      P. DONEGAN: Typology and drift in Munda.
      A. GRIFFITHS: A report on fieldwork in Koraput District, Orissa: the Senior Gadba tribe and the Gutob language
      M. PATNAIK: A synchronic analysis of linguistic divergence in South Asia:A case study of the verb 'say'


  Dravidian

     S. STEEVER: Historical Dravidian linguistics: the need of internal reconstruction to balance the results of the comparative method.

GENETICS

     P. FRANCALACCI : The peopling of Eurasia: the contribution of Y-chromosome analysis

ARCHAEOLOGY (I)

      H.-P. FRANCFORT:
Perspectives on the origins and religious aspects of the Oxus Civilization (BMAC)
      F. HIEBERT: The recently discovered Bronze Age inscription (2300 BC) from Anau, Central Asia.

      B. LAWERGREN: On Bactria-Margiana and later Iranian trumpets

 
 

Sino-Platonic Papers
Number 112, July, 2001
Notes on the Anau Inscription
by Victor H. Mair
Journal Cover and Series Information
Copyright, Table of Contents, Acknowledgements, Preface
Photographs of Anau and Niyä Seals, Maps
Notes (Primary Discussion of Inscription)
Additional Notes, Sketch of Site, Photo of room where seal was found, Further Ruminations

Incised Marks from Shahdad, Iran
Stamped Marks and Combinations of Incised and Stamped Marks from Shahdad, Iran
Proto-Elamite
Neolithic Pottery Marks from China
Newspaper Reports
First Reactions, Select Bibliography
Previous Issues

 


LINGUISTICS (II)


  The Northwest
      M. WITZEL: Central Asian substrate languages
      J. BENGTSON: Genetic and cultural links between Burushaski and the Caucasian languages and Basque


ARCHAEOLOGY (II)


      G. POSSEHL: Franz Boas on Race, Language and Culture
      H. MILLER: A look at method and theory: the example of Biblical Archaeology
      R. MEADOW: Current excavations at Harappa
      B. WELLS: The geographical distribution of Indus signs
      R. MUGHAL: Cemeteries of Late Harappan period at Harappa
      D.P. AGRAWAL: The Central Himalayas in the archaeology of the Northern Plains, and the myth of Vedic Aryans


LANGUAGE/LITERATURE


      S. FARMER:
Three problems in Indology approached from comparative perspectives: textual layering,
 the dates of the Vedas, and the Harappan 'writing' question.
      G. THOMPSON: The relationship between Vedic and Avestan: the provenance of Soma, amshu, and its relation to the BMAC?
      K. YOUNG: Searching for Clues to Indian Prehistory Around and Across the Arabian Sea: Are Nubia, Punt (on the eastern coast of the Red Sea), Indus Valley, and Tamilnadu Linked and If So, How?
      S. PALANIAPPAN: Culture change in Tamil Nadu in the early centuries CE.
      S. RAY : The many forms of Meitei mayek: orthographic debates in Meitei language
      B. BROOKS: The Arthashastra Core as a Maurya Document

 

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