Recent excavations prove that hominids indeed did exist in the indian subcontinent, more in the southern peninsula. Even Ramayana, the epic, speaks of them . When did they disappear ? What was their genus/species name ? Why and how did they disappear ? In that case, are we in part hominids apart from being an aryan dravidian mix at times due to the course of time?
Kishanan- you asked so many questions at a time. I have published many papers on this topic and have uploaded in Research Gate. You read one or two and will get to the problem. After that this discussion would be more meaningful
After reading your paper on hominins, I have a doubt. Were earlier H. Sapiens called hominins because they looked different ? Or is the term restricted to erectus, habilis, floresensis, sivapithecus, indopithecus and the likes including the earlier andaman tribes ?.
All humans are hominins, not just earlier ones. I am one and you are too.
Andamans are modern humans just like you and me. Genetically all living humans are very closely related (much more closely than e.g. modern chimps are related to each other). So there is no reasons to single out Andamans (or other "tribes") as more hominin than others.
Oppenheimer's "the real Eve" is a reasonable introduction in these matters, although recent evidence for interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans has outdated it a bit.
On other hominins in India: there are too few fossils, so we can only say at stone tools suggest occupation from early on. Coupling specific stone tools to species is a matter of conjecture. It could be that Neanderthals or Denisovans lived in India before modern humans arrived. But it could just as well prove to have been another (as yet unknown) species.
Krishanan- Garrit has explained about hominins. We have two types of fossil hominins from Narmada valley- you see my latest paper. Neanderthals and Denisovans are not recognized in Indian fossil record. On Sialik hominoids too I have uploaded several papers. Pl see.
Regarding extinction of the Siwalik hominoids- a general opinion is that they became extinct in the Siwaliks during 8-7 million years ago. But, I did find a very rare occurrence of Sivapithecus between 6-5 mya. See my paper of 1985 Late occurrence of Sivapithecus in Indian Siwaliks. J. Human Evolution- uploaded in RG.
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