Jim G. Shaffer

Jim G. Shaffer 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. He is noted for his studies on the Indus Valley Civilization.

Publications

Jim G Shaffer (1984), The Indo-Aryan Invasions: Cultural Myth and Archaeological Reality, in John R Lukacs (ed.) The People of South Asia: The Biological Anthropology of India, Pakistan and Nepal, New York, Plenum Press, pp. 77-88.
Prehistoric Baluchistan: With Excavation Report on Said Qala Tepe.
A Honaki Phase Site on the Lower Verde River, Arizona.
Shaffer, Jim G. (1995). “Cultural tradition and Palaeoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology”, Ed. George Erdosy: Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia. ISBN 0948-1923.
Shaffer, Jim G. (1999). “Migration, Philology and South Asian Archaeology”, Ed. Bronkhorst and Deshpande: Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia. ISBN 1-888789-04-2.
"Reurbanization: The Eastern Punjab and Beyond." 1993 In Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times. Studies in the History of Art No. 31. H. Spodek and D.M. Srinivasan, (Eds.). Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, pp. 53-67.
"The Indus Valley, Baluchistan and Helmand Traditions: Neolithic Through Bronze Age." 1992 In Chronologies in Old World Archaeology. Second Edition. R.W. Ehrich, (Ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I:441-464, II:425-446.