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Research of the Human Ancestor Temple of Yi People in Kaiyuan, Yunnan. [In Chinese]. Yunnan University Press. Dec. 2011: 16-29. 138. Origin and Development of Language in South Asia: Phylogeny VS Epigenetics? In: Evolutionary Thinking: Beyond Biology. Ed. by Vidyanand Nanjundiah. Indian Academy of Sciences. 2011: 42-101. 137. Osada, Toshiki and M. Witzel (eds.): Cultural Relations between the Indus and the Iranian Plateau during the Thirds Millennium BCE. Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, June 7-8, 2008. Cambridge: Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora 7 (2011) 136. Gandhāra and the formation of the Vedic and Zoroastrian canons. Traveaux de symposium international. Le Livre. La Roumanie. L’Europe. Troisième edition, 20-24 Septembre 2010. Tome III. Etudes euro- et afro-asiatiques. Bucharest: Bibliothèque de Bucarest 2011: 490- 532. www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwbib.pdf http://www.bibliotecametropolitana.ro/Uploads/Simpozionul%20International_Ca rtea_Romania_Europa_III_V3_mic.pdf 135. Shamanism in Northern and Southern Asia: Their distinctive methods of change of consciousness. Social Sciences Information/Information sur les sciences sociales 50 (1) March 2011 (Paris): 2011: 39-61 [cf.: http://www.classics.jp/GSH/GSH_Eng/5th_sympo_information.html] ===2010=== 134. Pan-Gaean Flood Myths: Gondwana myths – and beyond. In: New Perspectives on Myth. Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Ravenstein (The Netherlands) 19-21 August 2008, ed. W. J.M. van Binsbergen and Eric Venbrux. PIP-TraCS No. 5, Haarlem 2010: 225-242 133. Das Alte Indien. 2nd (updated) edition, Munich: Beck 2010. http://www.chbeck.de/productview.aspx?product=12469

====2009=== 132. Kalpasūtras. 2009. In: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Berlin. @@ 131. Moving Targets? Texts, language, archaeology, and history in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist periods. Indo-Iranian Journal 52, 2009, 287-310. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://brill/indo/2009/000 00052/F0020002/art00010&token=008d142763674e2663262d4477607770702c3a6e2 44f41497e22242576676d383a4b3b2570237b45244138387c2b41562a72752d2c5e4e7 d636371763b4746287a7046dd1dfd7 130. The linguistic history of some Indian domestic plants. Indian Academy of Sciences. Journal of Biosciences 34(6) 2009: 829-833 http://www.ias.ac.in/jbiosci/dec2009/contents.htm Full text: http://www.ias.ac.in/jbiosci/dec2009/Witzel_fulltext.pdf pdf: hyderabadEssays_Final_Witze.pdf 129. Chuo Ajia Shinwa to Nihon Shinwa [Central Asian mythology and Japanese Mythology; in Japanese], Annual Report of the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. Heisei 21, (Sept. 2009), 85-96 基調講演2 中央アジア神話と日本神話 128. ---, with S. Farmer, W. Zaumen, R. Sproat. Simulating the evolution of political-religious extremism: implications for international policy decisions. Working Paper # 1. The Cultural Modeling Research Group. Palo Alto 2009 126. Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Ed. Knut A. Jacobson.Leiden 2009 127. Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Ed. Knut A. Jacobson.Leiden 2009 (Online 2012) @@ 2 papers in Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Ed. Knut A. Jacobson.Leiden 2009: articles on 'Ṛṣis' and on 'Vedic Gods' @@* Vedic Gods/ Rsis ~ (Ruijters) 125. --- , et al. Hindutva View of History. Rewriting Textsbooks in India and the United States. (with K. Visvesvaran, Nandini Majrekar, Dipta Bhog, and Uma

Chakravarti). Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. 10th Anniversary edition. Winter/Spring 2009, 101-112. Pdf: GJIA—Viswesvaran—PDF.pdf 124. Female Rishis and Philosophers in the Veda? Paper read at a Conf. in Milano, Oct. 18-19, 2002 «Understanding Indian Women: Love, History and Studies». Journal of South Asia Women Studies, Vol. 11 no. 1, 2009. http://asiatica.org/jsaws/11-1/female-rishis-and-philosophers-veda/ pdf: FemaleRsis-Unicode.pdf 123. Releasing the Sun at Midwinter and Slaying the Dragon at Midsummer: A Laurasian Myth Complex. In: Cosmos. The Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society, 23, 2007 [2009], 203-244. Pdf: Witzel-Solstice-March2009copy.pdf ===2008=== 122. Slaying the dragon across Eurasia. In: Bengtson, John D. (ed.) In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory. Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamin’s Publishing Company 2008: 263-286 121. The Brahmins of Kashmir. In: The Valley of Kashmir. The making and unmaking of a composite culture? Edited by Aparna Rao, with a foreword and introductory essay by T.N. Madan. New Delhi: Manohar 2008: 37-93. *121a Lê Thị Liên (Viện Khảo cổ học) & Michael Witzel (Đại học Harvard, Hoa Kỳ) Góp phần nghiên cứu về các hiện vật kim loại vàng ở Cát Tiên-Lâm Đồng Hội nghị khoa học Cát Tiên lần thứ 3.

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*120a. Michael Witzel và Lê Thị Liên 2007. Góp thêm thông tin từ các mảnh vàng cuả Gò 6B (Cát Tiên, Lâm Đồng), NPHMVKCH năm 2007, NXB Từ Điển Bách Khoa, Tr. 685-687.

120. Notes on Vedic Dialects, 2. In : G. Schweiger (ed.), Indogermanica. FS für Gert Klingenschmitt. Indische, iranische und indogermanische Studien dem verehrten Jubilar dargebracht zu seinem fünfundsechigsten Geburtstag. Taimering: Schweiger VWT-Verlag 2005, 733-743. [released 2007] 119. Myths and Consequences. Review of Stefan Arvidsson, Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science. (Chicago University Press 2006). In: Science, vol. 317, 28 September 2007, 1868-1869 (Manuscript Number: 1141619). Summary: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/317/5846/1868?ijkey=vNHCuWd IhTviU&keytype=ref&siteid=sci http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5846/1868?ijkey=vNHCuWdIhTvi U&keytype=ref&siteid=sci 118. Rig-Veda. Das heilige Wissen. Erster und zweiter Liederkreis. Aus dem vedischen Sanskrit übersetzt und herausgegeben von Michael Witzel und Toshifumi Goto unter Mitarbeit von Eijiro Doyama und Mislav Jezic. Frankfurt: Verlag der Weltreligionen. 2007, pp. 1-889 http://www.verlagderweltreligionen.de/; 117. Memories of a Hindu Nepal: Accounts of a Personal Journey . Swadharma. Harvard’s Hinduism Journal, I, May 2006: 18-24 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/Swadharma.htm

116. Out of Africa: the Journey of the Oldest Tales of Humankind. In: Generalized Science of Humanity Series, Vol. I. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 2006: 21-65. [released 2007] [cf. http://www.classics.jp/GSH/] 第 1 回   ⼈人にとって豊かな⽣生とは何か

=====2006==== 115. Notes on Vedic Dialects (2.) In: Schweiger, G. Indogermanica. Festschrift Gert Klingenschmitt. Indische, iranische und indogermanische Studien dem verehrten Jubilar dargebracht zu seinem fünfundsechstigsten Geburtstag. Taimering: Schweiger-VWT-Verlag 2005: 733-743 [2006] 114. Brahmanical Reactions to Foreign Influences and to Social and Religious Change. In: Olivelle, P. (ed.) Between the Empires. Society in India between 300 BCE and 400 CE. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006: 457-499 113. Loan words in western Central Asia. Indicators of substrate populations, migrations, and trade relations. In: V. Mair (ed.) Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press 2006: 158-190 112. The Vedas and the Epics: Some Comparative Notes on Persons, Lineages, Geography, and Grammar. In: P. Koskikallio (ed.) Epics, Khilas, and Puranas. Continuities and Ruptures. Proceedings of the Third Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas. September 2002. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and the Arts 2005: 21-80 111. South Asian agricultural vocabulary. In: T. Osada (ed.). Proceedings of the Pre-Symposium of RHIN and 7th ESCA Harvard-Kyoto Round Table. Published by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RHIN), Kyoto, Japan 2006: 96-120 110. Creation myths In: T. Osada (ed.). Proceedings of the Pre-Symposium of RHIN and 7th ESCA Harvard-Kyoto Round Table. Published by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RHIN), Kyoto, Japan 2006: 284-318 109. Rama’s Realm Indocentric Rewritings of Early South Asian Archaeology and History . In: Archaeological fantasies : how pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public, ed. by G. Fagan, ed. by G.Fagan. London/New York: Routledge 2006: 203-232. [Discussion by Colin Renfrew: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/renfrew.htm]

===2005=== 108. Hinduism. In: S. Wolpert (ed.) Encyclopedia of India; published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Dec. 2005 : http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-India-Set-Stanley-Wolpert/dp/0684313499 108a. Languages and scripts. In: S. Wolpert (ed.) Encyclopedia of India; published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Dec. 2005 108b. Brahmanas. In: S. Wolpert (ed.) Encyclopedia of India; published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Dec. 2005 107. F.J. B. Kuiper. Obituary. Indo-Iranian Journal 2004 [2006] 106. Indocentrism: Autochthonous visions of ancient India. In: The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history / edited by Edwin F. Bryant and Laurie L. Patton. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 105. Vala and Iwato. The Myth of the Hidden Sun in India, Japan and beyond. EJVS 12-1, (March 1, 2005), 1-69 pdf; additional pictures, tables, maps: pdf (big file!) http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu:80/~indst206/Background_Information/Vala_ Iwato.pdf (large file) ====2004==== 104. Central Asian Roots and Acculturation in South Asia: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence from Western Central Asia, the Hindukush and Northwestern South Asia for Early Indo-Aryan Language and Religion. In: T. Osada (ed.) Linguistics, Archaeology and the Human Past. Kyoto : Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature 2004, 87-211 103. The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis:The Myth of a Literate Harappan Civilization by Steve Farmer, Richard Sproat, and Michael Witzel EJVS 11-2 (Dec. 13, 2005) pdf: http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/issues.html http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/fsw2.pdf Discussion in SCIENCE MAGAZINE 306, Dec. 17., 2004, 2026-2029

102. Early Linguistic Realationships between Central Asia and South Asia. Tsushin, Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku, 112, 2004, 74-75 101. The Ṛgvedic Religious System and its Central Asian and Hindukush Antecedents. In: A. Griffiths & J.E.M. Houben (eds.). The Vedas: Texts, Language and Ritual. Groningen: Forsten [Nov.] 2004: 581-636 (www.forsten.nl) Excerpt: Kalasha religion: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ewitzel/KalashaReligion.pdf 100. Kaṭha Āraṇyaka. Critical edition with a translation into German and an introduction. Cambridge: Harvard Oriental Series 65. 2004 [pp. lxxix, XXVI, 220, with color facsimiles of the Kashmir bhûrja MS] 99. Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia. Philadelphia: Sino-Platonic Papers 129, Dec. 2003

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98. F.B.J. Kuiper 1907-2003 (obituary), EJVS 11-1 2004 97. Aryoṃ ke īya mūla kī kalpanā: itihāsa meṃ miṭhaka kā miśraṇa. Dillī : Grantha Śilpī 2004 http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/Aryomke1.jpg Copyright page: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/Aryomke2.jpg

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89. S. Farmer, J. B. Henderson, M.Witzel. Neurobiology, Layered Texts, and Correlative Cosmologies: A Cross-Cultural Framework for Premodern History. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA) 72, 2002, 48-90 pdf http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/BMFEAfinal.pdf 88 Canon and Continuing Innovation: Indian Approaches to the Classics. In: H. Nakatani (ed.) Classics as a Basis of Creativity. Proceeedings of the 7th International Symposium on the Reconstitution of Classical Studies (ISRCS), Sept. 22-23, Kyoto, 2002, 46-55 http://www.classics.jp/Contents/Assets/publication/NLpdf/NLtoc/NLto http://www.classics.jp/RCS/index.htmlc11.htm 87. The Numeral System of Jarawa Andamanese. MT VII, 2002, 265-272 =====2001==== 86. Out of India: Classical values for Today and Tomorrow. In: H. Nakatani (ed.) Reconstitution of Classical Studies. Special Issue : A Report on a Symposium towards a Reconstitution of Classical Studies [2001] http://www.classics.jp/Contents/Assets/publication/NLpdf/NLtoc/NLtoc03.htm http://www.classics.jp/RCS/index.html 85. Medieval Veda Tradition as Reflected in Nepalese Manuscripts. Journal of the Nepal Research Centre, 12, 2001, 255-299 84. Prajātantu. In: Ryutaro Tsuchiyama and Albrecht Wezler (eds.). Haranandalahari. Volume edited in Honour of Professor Minoru Hara on his Seventieth Birthday. Reinbek : Inge Wezler 2000: 457-480 83. Comparison and Reconstruction : Language and Mythology. 45-62 http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ewitzel/Comp_Myth.pdf

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