Evolutionary Pathways in Nature: A Phylogenetic Approach, John C. Avise, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-85753-6, ... Thus, the current separation of the island from the mainland dates only to about 10 000 years ago, when the most recent Ice Age glaciers melted and global sea levels rose once again to create the Palk Strait (the present-day shallow ...
Asiaweek, Volume 7Archived 2016-07-23 at the वेबैक मशीन, Asiaweek Ltd., 1981, ... the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, which was then linked to India by a land bridge across the Palk Strait. Into this terrestrial cul-de-sac filtered bands of prehistoric men who anthropologists believe were ancestors of the Veddahs, Sri Lanka's aborigines who still hunt and forage deep in the island's wilds ...
South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri LankaArchived 2013-09-21 at the वेबैक मशीन, Peter J. Claus, Sarah Diamond, Margaret Ann Mills, Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-93919-5, ... Kataragama, as a god, refers both to the Sinhalese version of the Hindu war god Skanda, second son of Siva, and to the autochthonous South Indian god Murukan ... love affair with the half-god, half-deer, Vedda goddess Valli ... Sinhalese Buddhists, Tamil Hindus, Muslims and Christians all make pilgrimages to Kataragama, a fact of no small interest for a nation rent by decades of interethnic civil war ...
Asiaweek, Volume 7Archived 2016-07-23 at the वेबैक मशीन, Asiaweek Ltd., 1981, ... the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, which was then linked to India by a land bridge across the Palk Strait. Into this terrestrial cul-de-sac filtered bands of prehistoric men who anthropologists believe were ancestors of the Veddahs, Sri Lanka's aborigines who still hunt and forage deep in the island's wilds ...
South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri LankaArchived 2013-09-21 at the वेबैक मशीन, Peter J. Claus, Sarah Diamond, Margaret Ann Mills, Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-93919-5, ... Kataragama, as a god, refers both to the Sinhalese version of the Hindu war god Skanda, second son of Siva, and to the autochthonous South Indian god Murukan ... love affair with the half-god, half-deer, Vedda goddess Valli ... Sinhalese Buddhists, Tamil Hindus, Muslims and Christians all make pilgrimages to Kataragama, a fact of no small interest for a nation rent by decades of interethnic civil war ...