Jim G. Shaffer

Jim G. Shaffer
Nationality American
Alma mater Arizona State University
Occupation Associate Professor of Anthropology

Jim G. Shaffer (born 1944) is an American archaeologist and professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University.

Shaffer holds a B.A. (1965) and M.A. (1967) in Anthropology from Arizona State University. He also has a Ph.D. (1972) in Anthropology from University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Shaffer is noted for his studies on the Indus Valley Civilization. According to him there is no archaeological indication of an Aryan migration into northwestern India during or after the decline of the Harappan city culture.[1]

Publications

References

  1. Shaffer, J. and D. Lichtenstein, 1999. “Migration, Philology and South Asian Archaeology.” In Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia: Evidence, Interpretation and Ideology, edited by J. Bronkhorst and M. Deshpande. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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