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Tiempon I Manmofo'na: Ancient Chamorro Culture and History of the Northern Mariana Islands (review)

Tiempon I Manmofo'na: Ancient Chamorro Culture and History of the Northern Mariana Islands... book reviews 313 shown to be inadequate when describing (Cavalli-Sforza)? Kennedy finds little or no South Asia. support for these arguments in the skeletal The heterogeneous Harappans are pre- and dental evidence. sented in Chapters 14–15. Skeletal and In sum, God-Apes and Fossil Men has an dental analyses confirm their biological ori- incredibly broad scope covering geography, gins in the earlier populations of the north- geology, ecology, prehistory, protohistory, western portion of the subcontinent and primate and human palaeontology, skeletal their continuity with later peoples, includ- biology, human variation, genetics, and lin- ing the ‘problematic’ post-Harappan ceme- guistics. The details are all there, as are tery H. No major role for population re- the basics and the history behind the dis- placement or migration from Southwest coveries. The book is not intended for a Asia is substantiated. Accordingly, the general audience as it contains much spe- role of Aryan marauders as destroyers of cialized terminology. Readers, depending Harappan civilization is firmly discounted on their backgrounds, may find that they and relegated to the realm of myth. The need to look up certain geological (often diversity of the megalith builders, and their local South Asian) or osteological terms. It lack http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Perspectives University of Hawai'I Press

Tiempon I Manmofo'na: Ancient Chamorro Culture and History of the Northern Mariana Islands (review)

Asian Perspectives , Volume 40 (2) – Nov 1, 2001

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University of Hawai'I Press
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Copyright © 2001 University of Hawai'i Press.
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Abstract

book reviews 313 shown to be inadequate when describing (Cavalli-Sforza)? Kennedy finds little or no South Asia. support for these arguments in the skeletal The heterogeneous Harappans are pre- and dental evidence. sented in Chapters 14–15. Skeletal and In sum, God-Apes and Fossil Men has an dental analyses confirm their biological ori- incredibly broad scope covering geography, gins in the earlier populations of the north- geology, ecology, prehistory, protohistory, western portion of the subcontinent and primate and human palaeontology, skeletal their continuity with later peoples, includ- biology, human variation, genetics, and lin- ing the ‘problematic’ post-Harappan ceme- guistics. The details are all there, as are tery H. No major role for population re- the basics and the history behind the dis- placement or migration from Southwest coveries. The book is not intended for a Asia is substantiated. Accordingly, the general audience as it contains much spe- role of Aryan marauders as destroyers of cialized terminology. Readers, depending Harappan civilization is firmly discounted on their backgrounds, may find that they and relegated to the realm of myth. The need to look up certain geological (often diversity of the megalith builders, and their local South Asian) or osteological terms. It lack

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Published: Nov 1, 2001

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