History of Physical Anthropology
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Aryan Invasion in the Indian Subcontinent: Facts and Fallacies The Physical Anthropological Perspectives
The concept of Indo-Aryan group of peoples and their invasion has played a prominent role in explaining thecultural history of the Indian sub-continent. It was propounded that the Aryans, living somewhere outside India,invaded the Indian sub-continent around 1500 B.C. and after supplanting the indigenous powers and culturessettled in India. The Aryans were held responsible for the destruction o...
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Lithuanian physical anthropology developed quite changably, having its ups and dawns, connected with the history of the country: wars, the periods of occupation and independence. The history of Lithuanian anthropology can be divided into following periods: initial (the 1st half of the 19th c.), until independence of Republic of Lithuania (the 2nd half of the 19th c. and the beginning of the 20t...
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We introduce a special issue of Current Anthropology developed from a Wenner-Gren symposium held in Teresópolis, Brazil, in 2010 that was about the past, present, and future of biological anthropology. Our goal was to understand from a comparative international perspective the contexts of genesis and development of physical/biological anthropology around the world. While biological anthropology...
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Human skeletal and dental remains continue to provide the most direct evidence for examining the biology of past populations (Larsen, 1997, 2002). Quantitative (i.e., metric) as well as more qualitative (i.e., nonmetric or discrete) aspects of human biological variation remain central to studies in physical anthropology since its inception. Measurement of living (anthropometry) and skeletal rem...
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Physical anthropology was obsessed with types and racial purity for an exceptionally long time, only breaking through the clouds of typology in the 1960s and 1970s. For at least a hundred years, research on the Khoekhoe peoples of southern Africa was directed by the idea of Hamitic origins for these pastoralists, and the dynamics and variation of the native populations were ignored so that indi...
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