Sponsored byProvostial funds, FAS, Harvard University
Research Centre for Humanity and Nature (RHIN), Kyoto
The Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP)Thursday, May 8, 200
9:30 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Location: Barker Center (Quincy Street, Room 133).
Coffea/Tea 9 a.m.
RT start: 9:30 a.m.
GENETICS
N. Patterson (Broad Institute/MIT)
Genetic insights into the mixture history of South Asian populations
YoIchiro Sato (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RHIN, Kyoto)
Rice genetics: The origins of Japonica and Indica
ARCHAEOLOGY
Richard Meadow (Harvard)
Thoughts on the Indus Civilization, its foundation, and its legacy from the perspective of Mehrgarh and Harappa.
Toshiki Osada (RHIN)
The Indus Project of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RHIN, Kyoto)
Russell Seitz (Center For International Affairs, Harvard)
Carbon Dating Without Carbon: Cosmic ray activation of trace nitrogen in lithics and ceramics
Irene Good (Peabody Museum, Harvard)
The Archaeology of Vertical Transhumance: Revisiting Jettmar’s ‘Dardic Complex’
Peter Eltsov (Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, Berlin)
The Priest-King, or the Priest and the King: On hierarchy and heterarchy in ancient Indian society
FRIDAY MAY 9, 9:30 a.m.
LOCATION: 1 BOW STREET, 3rd floor
LINGUISTICS: Discussion of substrate languages of South Asia
Toshiki Osada (RHIN, Kyoto)
On Munda Languages
Franklin Southworth (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Linguistic Archaeology of some South Asian animal names.
John Bengtson (Santa Fe Institute)
Mutual lexical influences between Burushaski and Indo-Aryan: Bur. loanwords in Shina, Khowar, and general Indic; IA loanwords in Bur.
Michael Witzel (Harvard)
On Substrate languages in Central and South Asia
COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY
P. Oktor Skjaervo (Harvard)
The “state” of research on Zoroastrian mythology
Nataliya Yanchevskaya (Harvard)
Comparing Slavic and Indian myths
Michael Witzel (Harvard)
Central Asian and Japanese myths