Description: Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period.
Brief description: Gwen Robbins Schug, associate professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University, is coeditor of A Companion to South Asia in the Past.
Review Quotes:
"A conceptually novel bioarchaeological study that dovetails the regional archaeological record and the results of skeletal analysis to explore a topic of global significance."--American Anthropologist
"[An] innovative synthesis of the bioarchaeology of the northern Deccan region and Chalcolithic era skeletons, including a number of new approaches to analysis that are suited to the Indian situation in which few adult burial grounds are known."--American Journal of Physical Anthropology
"Carefully researched, interdisciplinary, focused and informative."--Antiquity