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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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love story of Aniruddha, Krishna’s grandson,
and princess Usha, daughter of King Bana. The
underground chamber is part of a temple, ruins
of which were discovered recently at Torajan
Kumargaon, 4km from here. Then called
Sonitpur, Tezpur is littered with remnants of
architecture dating back to King Bana’s time.
The Telegraph (Feb. 9, 2010)
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100210/jsp/northeast/stor
y_12084986.jsp
Archaeology Newly discovered archaeological
sites in southern and northern India have
revealed how people lived before and after the
colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago,
according to Press Trust of India (PTI) on
Tuesday. The international and
multidisciplinary research team, led by Oxford
University in collaboration with Indian
institutions, has uncovered what it calls
'Pompeii-like excavations' beneath the Toba ash.
The seven-year project examines the
environment that humans lived in, their stone
tools, as well as the plants and animal bones of
the time.
Bernama (Feb. 23, 2009)
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=
477252
Archaeology An inscription in Tamil was found
at the Kurudumale Vinayaka temple in
Mulbagal taluk of Kolar district on Saturday.
The four or five lines of inscription in Tamil was
found during an excavation work at the temple,
K.R. Narasimhan, Joint Director of Collegiate
Education, Dharwad, told The Hindu. Mr.
Narasimhan has made extensive study of
ancient temples in Kolar district and published
many works. “Since the stone was noticed in the
evening, details were not available,” the expert
on the temples in this region said.
The Hindu (Feb. 28, 2010)
http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/28/stories/201002285464060
0.htm
Genetics Despite their animosity, do Jews and
the Pathans in India come from the same
ancestral stock — the biblical lost tribes of
Israel? A subject of speculation among
academicians in the past, the Israeli government
has now asked an Indian geneticist, Shahnaz Ali,
to study the link between the Afridi Pathans
based in the Lucknow region and certain tribes
of Israel who migrated from their native place to
all over Asia a few thousand years ago. Ali, who
has been granted a scholarship by Israel’s
foreign ministry to work on the project, is
genetically analysing blood samples of the
Afridi Pathans of Malihabad near Lucknow
which she collected earlier to confirm their
Israeli origin.
The Times of India (Jan. 11, 2010)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lucknow-
Pathans-have-Jewish-roots/articleshow/5431654.cms
Linguistics The last speaker of an ancient tribal
language has died in the Andaman Islands,
breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's
oldest cultures. Boa Sr, who lived through the
2004 tsunami, the Japanese occupation and
diseases brought by British settlers, was the last
native of the island chain who was fluent in Bo.
Taking its name from a now-extinct tribe, Bo is
one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages,
which are thought to date back to pre-Neolithic
human settlement of south-east Asia.
Guardian (Feb. 4, 2010)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/ancientlanguage-extinct-speaker-dies
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