Multiple approaches to South Asian paleoanthropology
Subtitle: a tribute to Gudrun Corvinus
By: guest editors, Parth R. Chauhan, Rajeev Patnaik
Series: Quaternary international -- v. 192
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Paleoanthropology; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Paläanthropologie; Quartär
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Gudrun Corvinus (1932-2006)-Pioneering paleoanthropologist  -- P.R. Chauhan and R. Patnaik; title: Comments on the Pinjor Mammalian Fauna of the Siwalik Group in relation to the post-Siwalik faunas of Peninsular India and Indo-Gangetic Plain  -- A.C. Nanda; title: Climatic events and environmental adaptations relating to the Mesolithic hominids of the Gangetic Plain  -- K.A.R. Kennedy; title: Large mammal fossil occurrences and associated archaeological evidence in Pleistocene contexts of peninsular India and Sri Lanka  -- P.R. Chauhan; title: Additional vertebrate remains from one of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Kurnool Caves (Muchchatla Chintamanu Gavi) of South India  -- R. Patnaik, G.L. Badam and M.L.K. Murty; title: Discovery of large mammalian fossils at Morgaon, District Pune, Maharashtra, India  -- V. Sathe; title: The taphonomic record of Upper Siwalik (Pinjor stage) landscapes in the Pabbi Hills, northern Pakistan, with consideration regarding the preservation of hominim remains  -- R.W. Dennell; title: Predators and scavengers in Early Pleistocene southern Asia  -- R.W. Dennell, R. Coard and A. Turner; title: Post-Pleistocene adaptations in the Vindhya-Ganga valley complex  -- U.C. Chattopadhyaya; title: Comment on : "The dark nature of Somma-Vesuvius volcano : Evidence from the ~3.5 ka BP Avellino eruption" by Milia A., Raspini A., Torrente M.M.  -- R. Sulpizio, R. Cioni, M.A. Di Vito, R. Santacroce, A. Sbrana and G. Zanchetta; title: The dark nature of Somma-Vesuvius volcano : Evidence from the ~3.5 ka BP Avellino eruption-Reply -- A. Milia, A. Raspini and M.M. Torrente.