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Current Studies on the Indus Civilization, Volume III

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This is the third volume in Current Studies on the Indus Civilization. It contains four papers. Jeewan Singh Kharakwal and others have presented the second seasons report of excavation at Kanmer, Kachchh, Gujarat in the season of 2006-2007. In addition to this main report, P.P. Joglekar and Pankaj Goel have reported on the fauna analysis at Kanmer and Professors Rajaguru and G Deo have contributed a preliminary report on the geological issues in the environment of Kachchh area. Moreover, GIS archaeology is applied to the Kanmer site by Teramura and others. Professor Underhill has given us a paper on DNA analysis of human genetics.
Toshiki Osada is a Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto and the leader of Indus Project since 2007. He is a linguist working on South Asian Languages, especially the Munda languages spoken in Jharkhand. He has edited Indus Civilization: Text and Context, Vol. 1 (2006), Vol. 2 (2009) and Linguistics, Archaeology and the Human Past in South Asia (2009), all published from Manohar. Akinori Uesugi is a research scholar attached to the Indus Project since 2007. He has a long experience of several excavations in South Asia and specializes on Harappan archaeology.
Preface; Preliminary observations on Holocene fluvial sediments around Kanmer, Gujarat, India by S.N. Rajaguru and Sushama G. Deo; Preliminary observations on the excavation at Kanmer, Kachchh, India 2006-2007 by J.S. Kharakwal, Y.S. Rawat and Toshiki Osada; Report on the faunal remains recovered from Kanmer, Gujarat, during the second field season (2006-07) by Pankaj Goyal and P.P. Joglekar; Archaeology with GIS in the Indus Project by H. Teramura, Y. Kondo, T. Uno, A. Kanto, T. Kishida, and H. Sakai; Interpreting patterns of Y chromosome diversity: Pitfalls and promise: A case study from Southwest Asia by Peter A. Underhill.
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