Developments in the systematic study of ancient civilizations through the disciplines of Classics and Egyptology informed both archaeology and eventually social anthropology, as did the study of East and South Asian languages and cultures.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

* Latest day on which New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures can fall.

The abalone meat from South Africa is prohibited for sale in the country to help reduce poaching ; however, much of the illegally harvested meat is sold in Asian countries.

* New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures, celebrated on the sidereal vernal equinox:

* American-Born Confused Desi, refers to American youth of South Asian descent

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

Co-ed South Asian a cappella groups are also gaining in popularity.

Maize Mirchi, the co-ed a cappella group from the University of Michigan hosts " Sa Re Ga Ma Pella ", an annual South Asian a cappella invitational with various groups from the Midwest.

The loss of Kashmir during his reign opened a new chapter in South Asian history.

The scope of the Department of Asia is extremely broad, its collections of over 75, 000 objects covers the material culture of the whole Asian continent ( from East, South, Central and South-East Asia ) and from the Neolithic up to the present day.

The oldest roots of crokinole, from the 1860s, suggest the British and South Asian games are the most likely antecedents of what became crokinole.

The Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ) has established diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as well as all of its Asian neighbors, to include the People's Republic of China, India, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, and Thailand.

Costa Rica major economic resources are its fertile land and frequent rainfall, its well-educated population, and its location in the Central American isthmus, which provides easy access to North and South American markets and direct ocean access to the European and Asian Continents.

Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.

It is globally popular and an essential flavouring in many cuisines, particularly South Asian, Northern African and Latin American cuisines.

A 40-year study of African, Asian, and South American tropical forests by the University of Leeds, shows tropical forests absorb about 18 % of all carbon dioxide added by fossil fuels.

South Asian English phonology is highly variable ; stress, rhythm and intonation are generally different from those of native varieties.

It is believed that their origin lies in the Pakistani region of Baltistan, from where they were brought and pioneered by South Asian migrants to the UK.

* South Asian cuisine

This allele occurs almost exclusively in patients with ancestry across broad areas of Asia, including South Asian Indians.

The South Asian inhabitants of Mehrgarh fashioned tools with local copper ore ( ore used as pigment ) between 7700 – 3300 BC.

Other excavations from ancient tombs in the Indus Valley civilization indicate a South Asian origin.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

For example the late Alam Lohar is a good example of a classical South Asian folk singer of great repute.

Other sources of information include the National Concrete Masonry Association, 38 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill., the Portland Cement Association, 33 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, Ill., and the Structural Clay Products Association, Washington, D.C..

It has given high priority to expanding relations with its South American neighbors and strengthening regional bodies such as the Latin American Integration Association ( ALADI ), the Union of South American Nations ( UNASUR ) and Mercosur.

The university competes in intercollegiate debate within the National Educational Debate Association, in intercollegiate mock trial and computer science competitions, and at South Carolina Student Legislature.

As of April 2012, the Association Croquet World Champion is Reg Bamford of South Africa.

* Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales, an association of private boys ' schools

In 1900, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial stating, " Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice – that of ' cocaine sniffing ' or the ' coke habit.

Category: Member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

This category includes the Council of Europe ( CoE ), European Union ( EU ), NATO, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, African Union ( AU ), Organization of American States ( OAS ), Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), Arab League, and Union of South American Nations.

The USAID funded the creation of the ANGAP ( National Association for the Management of Protected Areas-the national park service ), employing consultants to model an institutional structure based upon a modified version of the South African and American national parks and protected areas systems.

Nonetheless, Malaysia was active in the opposition to apartheid that saw South Africa quit the Commonwealth in 1961, and was a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in 1967 and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) in 1969, with the Tunku as its first Secretary-General in 1971.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

Nepal ’ s most substantive international relations are perhaps with international economic institutions, such as the Asian Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, a multilateral economic development association.

Nepal has played an active role in the formation of the economic development-oriented South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) and is the site of its secretariat.

She was educated at Stradbroke Primary and Pembroke School and, later, the University of Adelaide where she graduated B. A .. She was active in student politics, becoming president of the Students ' Association of the University of Adelaide ( SAUA ) and serving as state women's officer for the National Union of Students in South Australia.

Paraguay is also a member of the Inter-American Development Bank, Latin American Integration Association, and Latin American Economic System and a signatory to the agreement creating the South American Community of Nations.

* Both countries are full members of the Rio Group, of the Latin Union, of the Association of Spanish Language Academies, of the Organization of American States, of the Organization of Ibero-American States and of the Union of South American Nations.

Benaud was awarded life membership by the New South Wales Cricket Association, but he returned it in protest in 1970 when his younger brother John was removed from the captaincy.

in South Asian Archaeology 1975: Papers from The Third International Conference of The Association of South Asian Archaeologists In Western Europe, Held In Paris ( December 1979 ) edited by J. E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw.

Uruguay also is a member of the Latin American Integration Association ( ALADI ), a trade association based in Montevideo that includes 10 South American countries plus Mexico and Cuba.

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity is a new religious movement founded in South Korea in 1954 by the late Sun Myung Moon.

Within the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, South Whidbey High is listed as a 2-A school.