Robert von Heine-Geldern

Robert Freiherr von Heine-Geldern (16 July 1885 - 25 May 1968), known after 1919 as Robert Heine-Geldern, was an Austrian anthropologist, ethnologist, archaeologist and prehistorian who studied in particular the cultures and civilisations of Southeast Asia. He tought as a professor of ethnology and archaeology of India and Southeast Asia at the University of Vienna and, during his emigration from 1938 to 1949, in the United States. Heine-Geldern is considered a pioneer in the field of Southeast Asian Studies.

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• Heine-Geldern (1936), an early forerunner in this regard, while admitting that "we may not as yet say with certainty whether these . . . shapes have been brought to India by trading inter- course or by an ethnical migration" (104), nonetheless was inclined to consider that "they were from a later date than the Indus civilization and possibly belonging to the Vedic age" (23).
  • in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press.