Robin Coningham

Robin Andrew Evelyn Coningham, FSA, FRAS (born 2 December 1965) is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics. Quotes These interpretations suggest the simple equation that ‗material culture = people = language‘ ... Processual and post-processual developments in archaeological theory have surely enabled us to abandon such crude equations and to acknowledge that the dynamics of material culture, ethnicity and language are far more complex. Robin Coningham, ‗Deciphering the Indus Script‘, p. 91. Coningham, R.A.E. ‗Deciphering the Indus Script‘, in S. Settar & Ravi Korisettar, eds, Indian Archaeology in Retrospect, Vol. II, Protohistory: Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization, New Delhi, 2000. There is no evidence for an invasion or mass migration of new peoples from outside which destroyed the networks of the Integration Era. Instead, there is evidence in the form of both artefacts and structures which demonstrates that there was a degree of continuity, although the form, scale and patterns of human communities and their settlements altered; or as many researchers describe it, there was a distinct transformation…… Indeed, Sankalia’s statement of 1962 still remains valid, that despite almost a century of investigations, “we have not found anything “Aryan” on the ruins of the Indus Valley Civilisation” (Coningham and Young 2015) Coningham, Robin, and Ruth Young. 2015. “Localisation: Transformations of a System (c. 1900–1200 BCE).” In The Archaeology of South Asia: From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE–200 CE. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139020633.007. The existence of a group of people called Indo-Europeans or Vedic Aryans has achieved the status of received wisdom—it has been repeated so often that it is now accepted fact, despite there being no satisfactory archaeological evidence whatsoever to support the presence of an incoming group of such numbers as historical and archaeological explanations require. Coningham and Young, The Archaeology of South Asia, p. 85. Coningham, R. and R. Young. The Archaeology of South Asia: From the Indus to Asoka, c. 6500 BCE–200 CE, Cambridge, 2015. External links Category:1965 births Category:Archaeologists from England Category:Living people