Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Lecture-Out of Africa and the Significance of the South Asian Archaeological Record-By Prof. Michael D. Petraglia Professor of Human Evolution and Prehistory, University of Oxford
Posted on May 23rd, 2012
Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Lecture
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ByƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Prof. Michael D. Petraglia
Professor of Human Evolution and Prehistory, University of Oxford
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at the
Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium,
No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, ColomboƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 07
ALL ARE WELCOME
ThisƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ lecture refers to work done over the last several years through genetics (mitochondria and Y-chromosome) describing how humans migrated from Africa outwards including in this case to South Asia covering Sri Lanka. Prof Petraglia is the Professor of Human Evolution and Prehistory at the University of Oxford. His biographical details can be got from clicking the links below:
http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/MP1.html
http://humanorigins.si.edu/research/hop-team/michael-petraglia
To get at discussions on the out of Africa hypothesis and its repercussions on South Asia, click below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_and_archaeogenetics_of_South_Asia#cite_note-nature.com-37