Kenneth A R Kennedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth A R Kennedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth A R |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennedy |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEDY K A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8109-9393 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Were There Commercial Communications between Prehistoric Harappans and African Populations
This paper is an historical and scientific evaluation of Western archaeologists’ theories concerning ancient population movements and commercial contacts between the prehistoric Harappans and African populations during the Indus Age (2500-1900 BC). In this context the human skeletal remains and artifacts from Harappa and Mohenjodaro are relevant. An urnburial from the Indus river site of Chanhudaro has an important bearing upon this subject. The …
Recent Recovery of Unpublished Field Notes of Theodore D. McCown’s Paleoanthropological Explorations in the Narmada River System, India, 1964–1965
The 1982 discovery of the “Narmada Man” middle Pleistocene fossil cranial remains by geologist Arun Sonakia in the Narmada valley of India raised a number of questions about the crania’s antiquity, stratigraphic context, and nature of associated lithic cultural materials. Although archaeological research had been carried out in 1964–1965 in the region by a research team led by Theodore McCown from the University of California at Berkley, Dr. McCo…
Chapter 10. The Two 20th-Century Crises of Racial Anthropology
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology_or, as it is now known, biological anthropology_from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the late 1900s. In this edited volume, 13 contributors trace the development of people, ideas, traditions, and organizations that contributed to the advancement of this branch of anthropology that focuse…
Climatic events and environmental adaptations relating to the Mesolithic hominids of the Gangetic Plain
Slings and arrows of predaceous fortune: Asian evidence of prehistoric spear use
Brief communication: Ancient DNA prospects from Sri Lankan highland dry caves support an emerging global pattern
Recovery of ancient DNA has become an increasingly important tool in elucidating the origins of past populations and their relationships. Unfortunately, many human skeletal remains do not contain original DNA amplifiable by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Amino‐acid racemization has proven to be a useful predictor of ancient DNA results. We analyzed the relative levels of amino‐acid preservation and racemization of human samples from two highlan…
The Uninvited Skeleton at the Archaeological Table: The Crisis of Paleoanthropology in South Asia in the Twenty-first Century
Emerging from the philological-historical approaches of the eighteenth-century Orientalists, the scientific study of the hominid fossil record and prehistory of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and their borderlands) has a history of over two centuries. Today Western and South Asian scholars offer new answers to old questions about the origin and antiquity of the earliest hominids in the subcontinent, the beginnings of the Indus civilizati…
Megalithic Pochampad: The Skeletal Biology and Archaeological Context of an Iron Age Site in Andhra Pradesh, India
Human skeletal remains from a burial site in southern India excavated in the 1960s by the Department of Archaeology and Museums of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, have been analyzed. The burials were recovered from three megalithic graves containing iron weapons and horse trappings, pottery and terracotta figurines, stone blades, pieces of copper, and faunal remains of domesticated species. These assemblages are hallmarks of the sout…
Ancestral Images: The Iconography of Human Origins . Stephanie Moser
Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization
Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. Jonathan Mark Kenoyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Karachi: American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 1998. 262 pp
Paleoanthropology of South Asia
A canine tooth from the Siwaliks: First recorded discovery of a fossil ape
Markers of occupational stress: Conspectus and prognosis of research
In his role as discussant of the papers presented at the symposium on Activity Patterns and Musculoskeletal Stress Markers: An Integrative Approach to Bioarchaeological Questions at the 66th Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists held in St. Louis, Missouri, on 4 April 1997, the author summarizes topics presented by the participants and others, discusses innovative methodological procedures and statistical approac…
Cranial variation and the dispersal of modern humans in South Asia
Cranial variation and the dispersal of modern humans in South Asia
The Wrong Urn: Commingling of Cremains in Mortuary Practices
Personal identification of human skeletal remains altered by the heat of crematory furnaces in modern mortuaries may be complicated by the presence of more than a single individual in a sample. When identification of cremains of neonates and young children is required in legal disputes, as in cases where relatives suspect that a funeral establishment has presented them with the ashes of another individual, the forensic anthropologist may be consu…
Scaphocephaly in a Prehistoric Skeleton from Harappa, Pakistan
Irregularities of cranial suture closure resulting in scaphocephaly are documented for a number of prehistoric and historic human populations of the eastern and western hemispheres, but what may be the first recorded case from southern Asia appeared during the 1987 archaeological field season at the Indus Valley Civilization site of Harappa, Pakistan. The female specimen with this condition also exhibits indicators of developmental abnormalities …
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Tragedy of Evolution: The Human Animal Confronts Modern Society. Michio Kitahara
Racial identification in the context of prehistoric-historic biological continua: Examples from South Asia
The practice of 'racial palaeontology' disappeared 50 years ago with the fall of the biological race concept in systematics and population genetics. However, certain ethnic minorities claim close biological affinities with extinct (sometimes Pleistocene) populations. Forensic anthropologists may be involved in this issue through analyses of prehistoric and modern populations in circumstances where a biological continuum may exist. Skeletal eviden…
[Human Evolution in Southern and Eastern Asia] the Fossil Hominid From the Narmada Valley, India; Homo Erectus or Homo Sapiens
[Human Evolution in Southern and Eastern Asia] Introduction
Is the Narmada hominid an Indian Homo erectus
In 1982 a fossil hominid calvaria was found in a middle Pleistocene deposit in the central Narmada valley of Madhya Pradesh, India, and was assigned to the new taxon Homo erectus narmadensis . Subsequently, morphometric studies of the specimen were conducted by two separate research teams from France and the United States, both in collaboration with Indian colleagues. Results of the most recent study, which includes morphometric and comparative i…
Skeletons in the Closet: Recent Recovery of Lost Human Remains from Iron Age Raigir, Andhra Pradesh
(1990). Skeletons in the Closet: Recent Recovery of Lost Human Remains from Iron Age Raigir, Andhra Pradesh. South Asian Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 201-226
Stature Variability in Prehistoric and Modern South Asian Population: A Bio-Cultural Approach
Certain manifested in human biological diversity may be expressed as body size and shape by procedures. Standing height, or stature, is the phenotypic feature study with respect to both ancient and living populations of South Asia The problem invesointhithi0 discern differences in stature in samples of extinct and extant populations in this pin of the account for these differences within an evolutionary model. Stature data for prehistoric obtaine…
Skull Cap of an Early Man from the Narmada Valley Alluvium (Pleistocene) of Central India
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
Is the Narmada hominid an Indian Homo erectus
In 1982 a fossil hominid calvaria was found in a middle Pleistocene deposit in the central Narmada valley of Madhya Pradesh, India, and was assigned to the new taxon Homo erectus narmadensis . Subsequently, morphometric studies of the specimen were conducted by two separate research teams from France and the United States, both in collaboration with Indian colleagues. Results of the most recent study, which includes morphometric and comparative i…
Upper pleistocene fossil hominids from Sri Lanka
Between 1978 and 1983 hominid skeletal remains were collected from the cave sites of Batadomba lena and Beli lena Kitulgala in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). These are the most ancient specimens of anatomically modern Homo sapiens found thus far in South Asia, radiocarbon dates placing them in the Upper Pleistocene. Morphometric analysis of the remains of some 38 individuals from the two sites indicates that these populations were characterized by …
Prehistoric Skeletal Record of Man in South Asia
For over a century anthropologists have looked to South Asia for a palaeon tological record which would link already recovered hominid fossils from Eurasia and Africa to those found in East Asia. But until recently this expectation remained unfulfilled. Archaeological evidence rather than skel etal remains has documented the existence of Pleistocene man in the im mense landmass represented by the present political states of India, Pakistan, Afgha…
Dental Mutilations from Prehistoric India
Brief communication: Ancient DNA prospects from Sri Lankan highland dry caves support an emerging global pattern
Recovery of ancient DNA has become an increasingly important tool in elucidating the origins of past populations and their relationships. Unfortunately, many human skeletal remains do not contain original DNA amplifiable by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Amino‐acid racemization has proven to be a useful predictor of ancient DNA results. We analyzed the relative levels of amino‐acid preservation and racemization of human samples from two highlan…
Principal‐components analysis of prehistoric South Asian crania
Principal‐components analysis is used as an investigative procedure for establishing temporal, spatial and evolutionary‐developmental changes in Homo sapiens skeletal specimens from prehistoric sites in South Asia. It is concluded that cranial variables which cluster hunter‐gatherers within the sample are related to facial architecture with respect to robusticity and size. Older models presumably reflecting genetic affinities and racial classific…
Megalithic Pochampad: The Skeletal Biology and Archaeological Context of an Iron Age Site in Andhra Pradesh, India
Human skeletal remains from a burial site in southern India excavated in the 1960s by the Department of Archaeology and Museums of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, have been analyzed. The burials were recovered from three megalithic graves containing iron weapons and horse trappings, pottery and terracotta figurines, stone blades, pieces of copper, and faunal remains of domesticated species. These assemblages are hallmarks of the sout…
A canine tooth from the Siwaliks: First recorded discovery of a fossil ape
Skeletons in the Closet: Recent Recovery of Lost Human Remains from Iron Age Raigir, Andhra Pradesh
(1990). Skeletons in the Closet: Recent Recovery of Lost Human Remains from Iron Age Raigir, Andhra Pradesh. South Asian Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 201-226
Scaphocephaly in a Prehistoric Skeleton from Harappa, Pakistan
Irregularities of cranial suture closure resulting in scaphocephaly are documented for a number of prehistoric and historic human populations of the eastern and western hemispheres, but what may be the first recorded case from southern Asia appeared during the 1987 archaeological field season at the Indus Valley Civilization site of Harappa, Pakistan. The female specimen with this condition also exhibits indicators of developmental abnormalities …
Racial identification in the context of prehistoric-historic biological continua: Examples from South Asia
The practice of 'racial palaeontology' disappeared 50 years ago with the fall of the biological race concept in systematics and population genetics. However, certain ethnic minorities claim close biological affinities with extinct (sometimes Pleistocene) populations. Forensic anthropologists may be involved in this issue through analyses of prehistoric and modern populations in circumstances where a biological continuum may exist. Skeletal eviden…
Stature Variability in Prehistoric and Modern South Asian Population: A Bio-Cultural Approach
Certain manifested in human biological diversity may be expressed as body size and shape by procedures. Standing height, or stature, is the phenotypic feature study with respect to both ancient and living populations of South Asia The problem invesointhithi0 discern differences in stature in samples of extinct and extant populations in this pin of the account for these differences within an evolutionary model. Stature data for prehistoric obtaine…
Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia (1908-1989)
Primitive Surgery: Skills Before Science . Spencer L. Rogers
Paleodemography of India and Ceylon since 3000 B.C
Biological and cultural adaptations of prehistoric man in South Asia are surveyed against the background of geological‐climatic‐biotic changes occurring within Pleistocene and post‐Pleistocene times. The earliest human remains discovered thus far in the Indian sub‐continent are skeletons associated with Late Stone Age (Mesolithic) cultural materials. These series and those associated with subsequent cultural horizons (Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Har…
General and Ethnology: Linguistics. Le Geste Et La Parole; [I:] Technique Et Langage . André Leroi‐gourhan
A Biochemical Analysis of Human Remains from Gua Cha, Kelantan, Malaya
General and Ethnology: Linguistics. Le Geste Et La Parole; [I:] Technique Et Langage . André Leroi‐gourhan
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
Paleodemography of India and Ceylon since 3000 B.C
Biological and cultural adaptations of prehistoric man in South Asia are surveyed against the background of geological‐climatic‐biotic changes occurring within Pleistocene and post‐Pleistocene times. The earliest human remains discovered thus far in the Indian sub‐continent are skeletons associated with Late Stone Age (Mesolithic) cultural materials. These series and those associated with subsequent cultural horizons (Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Har…
Physical Anthropology: Evolution and Hominisation: Papers to the Theory of Evolution as well as Dating, Classification and Abilities of Human Hominids. G ottfried K urth , ed
Physical Anthropology: Rassengeschichte der Menschheit . 1. Lieferung: Australien‐Indochina‐Indo‐pakistan–Die Zigeuner . Karl Saller, ed
Physical Anthropology: Peking Man. Harry L. Shapiro
The Great Apes . David A. Hamburg and Elizabeth R. McCown
Prehistoric Skeletal Record of Man in South Asia
For over a century anthropologists have looked to South Asia for a palaeon tological record which would link already recovered hominid fossils from Eurasia and Africa to those found in East Asia. But until recently this expectation remained unfulfilled. Archaeological evidence rather than skel etal remains has documented the existence of Pleistocene man in the im mense landmass represented by the present political states of India, Pakistan, Afgha…
Dental Mutilations from Prehistoric India
AA Editors Seek Reviews of “Grey Literature”
Physical: A History of American Physical Anthropology, 1930–1980 . Frank Spencer , ed
Physical: Atlas of Human Paleopathology . Michael R. Zimmerman and Marc A. Kelley
Culture in Comparative and Evolutionary Perspective: E. B. Tylor and the Making of Primitive Culture
Biological Adaptations and Affinities of Mesolithic South Asians
South Asian Prehistoric Human Skeletal Remains and Burial Practices
Principal‐components analysis of prehistoric South Asian crania
Principal‐components analysis is used as an investigative procedure for establishing temporal, spatial and evolutionary‐developmental changes in Homo sapiens skeletal specimens from prehistoric sites in South Asia. It is concluded that cranial variables which cluster hunter‐gatherers within the sample are related to facial architecture with respect to robusticity and size. Older models presumably reflecting genetic affinities and racial classific…
Physical: Human Remains from Burzahom . Memoir No. 56. Arabinda Basu and Anadi Pal
Physical: Scientists Confront Creationism . Laurie R. Godfrey
Physical: The Shanidar Neanderthals. Erik Trinkaus
Physical: The Identity of Man. Grahame Clark
Physical: The Myths of Human Evolution. Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall
Biological Anthropology: Human Adaptation: Proceedings of the Indian Statistical Institute Golden Jubilee International Conference on Human Genetics and Adaptation . A. Basu and K. C. Malhotra , eds
Skull Cap of an Early Man from the Narmada Valley Alluvium (Pleistocene) of Central India
Physical: Human Identification: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology
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