http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ewitzel/RT2004.htm
O. Bar-Yosef : Neandertals and
Modern Humans in the Caucasus region - continuity or replacement?
Ph. Kohl : The circulation of materials and peoples between the
steppes and the greater ancient Near East in late prehistoric times.
M. Witzel : Sintashta, BMAC and the Indo-Iranians. A query.
R. Mughal :
Ethnoarchaeological
investigations in Chitral, Pakistan: A preliminary survey
S. Farmer : The Functions of
Myth in Indus Inscriptions
R. Meadow : Aspects of the iconography of the molded tablets from
Harappa
S. Clark : Interpretation myths about the Indus Ômother
goddessÕ figurines
P. Eltsov : The idea of the Harappan and Gangetic city: archaeology
and texts
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S. Palaniappan : Tamil vs. Aryan: Identities in conflict
and coexistence
SUNDAY May 9
J. Bengtson:
Recent findings on Burushaski and its probable
genetic relationships (Evolution
of Human Language, a project of the Santa Fe Institute)
F. Southworth
: Non-Indo-Aryan
elements in Marathi: implications for the early history of the Deccan
M. Lockwood
: The Creation of the Pallava Tamil
Script.
A. Sharma: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on
the Aryan Invasion
P. Underhill : The South Asian
Y chromosome landscape
R. Villems :
Genetics of South, Central and Northern Asia
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M. Witzel :
Laurasian, Gondwana and Pan-Gaean mythology (summary only)
J.R. Gardner : Database and advanced search engines for
mythology and genetics.
W. van Binsbergen : Long-range mythical
continuities across Asia and Africa: Linguistic and iconographic evidence
concerning leopard symbolism.
G. Thompson : Shamanism in the Rgveda and its Central
Asian antecedents.
T. Osada: Mundra Creation Myths
A. Daladier : War-Khasi Mythology
V. Blazek : Indo-Iranian
elements in the Fenno-Ugric mythological vocabulary -- and vice
versa?
Ph. Nicholson :
Meditation Induced Light Images in the
Religious Cultures of Ancient India, China and Tibet.
W. Lai : The Problem with Creation Myths. A Chinese
Aberation? Or Maybe Not.
M. Puett : Notes on Early Chinese Ritual