Editing Vedda (section)

=== Anthropology ===
The Vedda are often seen as the native population of [[Sri Lanka]]. A 2011 study on dental characteristics suggested a close relation between Vedda and other South Asians as well as to western Eurasian populations.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Schug|first1=Gwen Robbins|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VAb9CgAAQBAJ&q=vedda+west+eurasian&pg=PA433|title=A Companion to South Asia in the Past|last2=Walimbe|first2=Subhash R.|date=2016-05-16|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-119-05548-8|language=en}}</ref> A 2012 study on crania showed the Vedda to have close affinities with other South Asian populations such as other [[Sri Lankans]], [[Dravidian people|South Indians]], and [[Punjabis]] and to differ significantly from [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands|Andaman islanders]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kulatilake|first=Samanti|title=Cranial Morphology of the Vedda people - the indigenes of Sri Lanka |website=Academia |url=https://www.academia.edu/9637404|language=en}}</ref>

A 2013 craniometric study by Raghavan et al. showed that the Vedda are closely related to other groups in Sri Lanka and [[India]], especially to [[Sinhalese people|Sinhalese]] and [[Tamils]], and also indicated deep relations between South Asian populations and the modern populations of [[Europe]], the [[Middle East]] and [[North Africa]]. According to Raghavan et al. the cranial characteristics of the Vedda are closest to other South Asians and distinct from "Australo-Melanesians". However, Raghavan et al. also, while also noting the distinctiveness of between South Asian (including Vedda) and Andamanese crania, explain that this is not in conflict with genetic evidence showing a partial common ancestry (a non-West Eurasian component known as "Ancestral South Indian" or "ASI") and genetic affinity between South Asians and the native [[Andamanese]] (who are sometimes classified as [[Australo-Melanesians]]), stating that "The distinctiveness of Andamanese and southern Indian crania need not challenge the finding by [[David Reich (geneticist)|Reich]] et al. for an "Ancestral South Indian" ancestry shared by southern Indians and Andamanese", and that the differences may be in part due to the greater craniometric specialization of South Asians compared to Andamanese.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Indian Craniometric Variability and Affinities|volume=2013|pages=836738|last1=Rathee|first1=Suresh Kanta|last2=Pathmanathan|first2=Gayathiri|date=2013|journal=International Journal of Evolutionary Biology|language=en|pmid=24455409|pmc=3886603|last3=Bulbeck|first3=David|last4=Raghavan|first4=Pathmanathan|doi=10.1155/2013/836738|doi-access=free}}</ref>