Etched in stone: tracing earthquakes through archaeological ruins

Feature image: Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, India by Nireekshit, CC BY-SA 3.0 Article: Archaeoseismological potential of the Indian subcontinent. Authors: Miklós Kázmér, Ashit Baran Roy and Siddharth Prizomwala India’s ancient monuments whisper more than just stories of past empires and civilizations: they also tell tales of its geological past. Evidence of earthquakes is …

What lies beneath: tracing human migrations through stone tools, India

Featured image: Katerina Douka, Michelle O’Reilly, Michael D. Petraglia – On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives; Science 08 Dec 2017: Vol. 358, Issue 6368, DOI: 10.1126/science.aai9067 [1], CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons) with minor edits Paper: Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago Authors: Chris Clarkson, Clair Harris, …

Rivers of Memory: India

The rivers of the Indian subcontinent bear witness to forces that shaped them over millennia – and a recent publication in the Journal of International Geosciences traces the evolution of India’s river systems at different time scales. This article delves into the paper’s classification of India’s river systems.

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