Curriculum Vitae

Name : AJITHPRASAD. P

Date of Birth : 30 November 1957. Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Present Position 16 July 2009 till date: Professor, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, The Faculty of Arts, The M. S. University of Baroda, , . 390002. Tel. (O) 091 0265 2713522; ( R) 091 0265 2792436 Previous positions 6 July 1999 to 15 July 2009: Reader, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, The Faculty of Arts, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India. 390002. 6 July 1995 to 5 July 1999 : Lecturer (Sr. Scale). Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, 390002, India. 5 July 1990 to 5 July 1995 : Lecturer (Archaeology), Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara 390002, India.

Education 1990 – Ph. D in Archaeology, The M. S. University of Baroda, India. 1983 – P .G. Diploma in Archaeology, School of Archaeology, A.S.I. Govt. of India. 1981 – M. A. Archaeology, The M. S. University of Baroda, India. 1978 – B. Sc. Chemistry, University of Calicut, Kerala.

Field of Specialization: Prehistoric Archaeology, Quaternary Environmental Adaptations and Harappan studies Awards /Fellowships 1. Ford Foundation Junior Research Fellow: 1985-1988 2. Ford Foundation Senior Research Fellow: 1988- 1990 3. Post Graduate Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London, UK. (1 January 2006 to 30 March 2006). 4. UGC Visiting Fellow at the Deccan College, Pune (2 – 8 March 2008) 5. Visiting Research Fellow, Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan. (7 April 2008 to 6 July 2008) 6. Visiting Research Fellow, Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan. (10 May 2011 to 9 August 2011) 7. Rao Bahadur K.N. Dikshit Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 2 to 21October 2012

Visiting Faculty University/Institute 1. 19 to 21 June 2014 Institute of Archaeology, ASI, Govt. of India. New Delhi. 2. 8 to 10 July 2009 Institute of Archaeology, ASI, Govt. of India. New Delhi. 3. 25 to 31 March 2009 Institute of Archaeology, ASI, Govt. of India. New Delhi. 4. 23 to 26 August 2007 Institute of Archaeology, ASI, Govt. of India. New Delhi 5. 18 to 22 November 2000 Institute of Archaeology, A.S.I, New Delhi, Govt. of India. 6. 12 to 21 October 1999 Institute of Archaeology, A.S.I, New Delhi, Govt. of India

Ajithprasad Page 1 2016 Resource Person 1. Refresher course in History: Department of History, University of Calicut, Kerala. 21-22 July 2000 2. Refresher course in Ancient Department of History, University of Calicut, Kerala. History and Archaeology, 10-11 January 2004 3. Orientation course on Recent Institute of Archaeology, ASI, New Delhi Advances in Archaeology 21 April 2011

Membership of 1. Life Member, Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Academic bodies: Studies. 2. Life member, Indian Archaeological Society 3. Member, Geological Society of India. Research Projects A. Completed 1985 – 1990 Prehistoric Archaeology and Palaeoenvironmental Studies in the Orsang Valley. Ford Foundation Grant to the Department of Archaeology.

1992-98 Palaeoenvironmental Investigations and Prehistoric Studies in the Sikhi Valley Ford Foundation Grant to the Department of Archaeology.

1992 –1998 Harappan Affiliated Chalcolithic Settlements in North . Under the Ford Foundation Grant to the Department of Archaeology Research team Member, Ford Foundation Grant to the Department of Archaeology. Grant No.840 - 0506-1. From 1992-1998

2002 - 2007 (Phase-I) Prehistoric and Harappan Studies in Gujarat Departmental Project under UGC, SAP (Phase-I) Core member of the Thrust Area of research. University Grants Commission (UGC), Special Assistance Programme (SAP), Govt. of India.

2007 – 2011 (Phase II) Prehistoric and Harappan Studies in Gujarat Departmental Project under UGC, SAP,. Core member of the Thrust Area of research. University Grants Commission (UGC), Special Assistance Programme (SAP), Govt. of India.

2010 to 2011 Gujarat Harappan Sites Gazetteer Project (GHSGP) Collaborative project between Department Archaeology and Ancient History, The M. S. University of Baroda and the Indus Project of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan. (MoU Signed between the two Institutions)

B. On-going Research Programmes

1. Archaeological Project (NoGAP) Collaborative project between Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, The M. S. University of Baroda and the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, IMF, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain. (MoU signed between the two Institutions) Duration: 5 years; 1 September 2007 to 31 August 2012; extended to August 2017.

Workshop Organization Environmental Archaeology: Organized an International workshop on environmental Archaeology and at the Department of Archaeology, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, IMF, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain form 12th to 16th September 2011.

Ajithprasad Page 2 2016 GIS Workshop: Organized an International Workshop on Application of GIS and Photogrammetry in Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, in collaboration with the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan form 3 - 12th October 2008.

Publications 2016 Juan José García-Granero, Carla Lancelotti, Marco Madella, and P. Ajithprasad “Millets and Herders The Origins of Plant Cultivation in Semiarid North Gujarat (India)” Current Anthropology Vol. 57, No.2:149 -173

2015 Salpeteur, M., H. Patel, A. L. Balbo, X. Rubio-Campillo, M. Madella, P. Ajithprasad, and V. Reyes-García. “When Knowledge Follows Blood” Current Anthropology, Vol. 56, No. 3; June 2015: 471-483

2015 García-Granero, J. J., C. Gadekar, I. Esteban, C. Lancelotti, M. Madella and P. Ajithprasad “What’s on the craftsmen’s menu? Plant consumption at Datrana, a 5000 years old lithic blade workshop in North Gujarat, India” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Published on line 7 Aug. 2015 doi 10.1007/s12520-015-0281-0

2015 Amekawa, S ., K. Kubota, Y. Miyairi, A. Seki, Y. Kawakubo, S. Sakai, P. Ajithprasad, H. Maemoku, T. Osada, Y. Yokoyama. “Fossil otoliths, from the , Western India, as a paleo-archive for the mid- to late-Holocene environment” Quaternary International (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.07.006

2015 Blinkhorn, J., H. Achyuthan, P. Ajithprasad “Middle Palaeolithic point technologies in the Thar Desert, India”, Quaternary International (2015): 1-13 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.02.027)

2015 Kaoru Kubota, Yusuke Yokoyama, Yuta Kawakubo, Arisa Seki, Saburo Sakai, P. Ajithprasad, Hideaki Maemoku, Toshiki Osada and S. K. Bhattacharya “Migration 18 history of an ariid Indian catfish reconstructed by otolith Sr/Ca and d O micro-analysis” Geochemical Journal, Vol. 49, pp. 00 to 00, 2015 (accepted for publication in May 2015)

2014 Ajithprasad.P. “The Cultural and Stratigraphic Context of the Harappan Black Slipped Jar at Bagasra, Gujarat” Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology No. 9, 2013:166 - 194

2014 Ajithprasad. P. “Palaeoloithic Cultural Developments and Modern Human Dispersal in Gujarat” Puratattva No.44, 2014:16 - 28

2014 Ajithprasad. P. “Bagasra” in History of Ancient India (Ed.) Dilip K. Chakrabarti and Makhan Lal. Vol.II – VII.2. Sites: Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi, Aryan Books International, New Delhi: 243-662

2014 Brad Chase, Ajithprasad. P, Rajesh. S.V., Ambika Patel and Bhanu Sharma “Materializing Harappan Identities: Unity and Diversity in the Boarder lands of the Indus Civilization” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 35 (2014): 63–78

2014 Brad Chase, David Meiggs, P. Ajithprasad and Philip A Slater “Pastoral land - use of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: faunal analysis and biogenic isotopes at Bagasra” Journal of Archaeological Science June 2014; available online

2014 Balbo, A.L, B. Rondelli, C. F. Cecilia, C. Lancelotti, M. Madella and P. Ajithprasad “Contributions of geoarchaeology and remote sensing to the study of Holocene

Ajithprasad Page 3 2016 Hunter- gatherer and agro-pastoral groups in arid margins: The case of North Gujarat (northwest India)” Quaternary International April 2014. Available on line doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.12.016.

2014 Veena Mushrif-Tripathy, P. Ajithprasad, M. Madella, J. L. Mateos, S.V. Rajesh, B. Rondelli, J.C. Saiz, C. Lancelotti, C. Gadekar, and J.J. Garcia Granero “Osteological Study of a Human Skeleton Excavated from Vaharvo Timbo, District Patan, Gujarat” Man and Environment XXXIX (1): 45-51

2014 Charusmita Gadekar, S.V. Rajesh, Saleem Shaikh, Brad Chase, Y.S. Rawat, Ambika Patel, G.S Abhayan, V.Vinod, Ajit Kumar and P. Ajithprasad. “Typological Analysis of Chalcolithic Lithic Assemblage from Navinal, District Kachchh, Gujarat, Western India” Man and Environment XXXIX (1): 92-105

2014 Rondelli, B., C. Lancelotti, M. Madella, A. Pecci, A. Balbo, J.R. Perez, F. Inserra, C. Gadekar, M.A.C. Ontiveros & P. Ajithprasad. Anthropic activity markers and spatial variability: an ethnoarchaeological experiment in a domestic unit of Northern Gujarat (India). Journal of Archaeological Science 41: 482-492

2014 Gadekar, C.S., Rajesh SV & P. Ajithprasad. “Shikarpur Lithic Assemblage: New questions regarding Rohri chert blade production. Journal of Lithic Studies (1): 137- 149. DOI 10.2218/jls.v1i1.764

2013 Gadekar, C.S., P. Ajithprasad & M. Madella. “Crested ridge technique and lithic assemblage from Datrana, Gujarat. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 1: 16-28.

2013 Rajesh, S. V., K. Krishnan, P. Ajithprasad and Marco Madella “Pre-Prabhas Assemblage from Gujarat, Western India’ Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 1: 181-209.

2013 Conesa, F.C., N. Devanthery, A. Balbo, M. Madella and P. Ajithprasad. “ Identification of Seasonally Flooded Areas in North Gujarat Using Radar Satellite Imagery. Implications for Archaeology” Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 1: 344-355.

2013 Lanceloti, C., V. Caracuta, G. Fiorentino, M. Madella and P. Ajithprasad “Holocene Monsoon Dynamics and Human Occupation in Gujarat: Stable Isotope Analysis on Plant Remains: 288-300 Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 1: 16-28.

2012 Madella. M., P. Ajithprasad, A. L Balbo, J. C Saiz, F. Cecilia, J.J. Garcia-Granero, C. Lancelotti, B. Rondelli, S. V. Rajesh, J. Ruiz, J. L. Mateos, C. S. Gadekar, R. A. Dumka, G. C. Kothiyari,P. Mortekhai and Prabhin Sukumaran. “La campana de excavation 2011 del North Gujarat Archaeological Project (NoGAP): Methodologia interdesciplnar para el studio de contextos socio-ecologicos en el Holoceneo” in Informes Y Trabajos, Excavaciones en el exterior 2011 Catalogo de publicaciones de Ministerio, Ministterio De Educacion, Cultura Y Deporte, Spain: 261-272

2011 Ajithprasad. P. “Chalcolithic Cultural Patterns and the Early Harappan Interaction in North Gujarat” In Toshiki Osada and Michael Witzel (Eds.) Cultural Relations between the Indus and the Iranian Plateau during the Third Millennium BCE; Harvard Oriental Series; Opera Minora Vol.7:11-40 ISBN 1-888-789-08-5

Ajithprasad Page 4 2016 2011 Ajithprasad. P and V. H. Sonawane. “The Harappa Culture in North Gujarat: Regional Paradigm” In Occasional Paper 12: Linguistics, Archaeology and Human Past. Toshiki Osada and Endo Hitoshi (Eds.). Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan: PP.223 -269. 2011 Ajithprasad, P., Rajesh S.V. and Sharma, B.P. “Archaeological Explorations in the coast of District, Gujarat” In Occasional Paper 10: Linguistics, Archaeology and Human Past. Toshiki Osada and Akinori Uesugi (Eds.). Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan: PP.27-70.

2011 August G Costa, P. Ajithprasad and Bhanu Sharma “Tracking Early Humans in Coastal Western India: the Gujarat Palaeoanthropology Project” Antiquity Bulletin Project Gallery Issue 327, Vol85, 2011

2010 Madella M., Ajithprasad P., Lancelotti C., Rondelli B., Balbo A., French C.,Rodríguez D., García-Granero J.J., Yannitto V., Rajesh S.V., Gadekar C.S., Briz I.. “Social and environmental transitions in arid zones: the North Gujarat Archaeological Project – NoGAP”. Antiquity Bulletin. Project Gallery Issue 325,Vol85, 2010

2010 Lancelotti, C., Madella, M., Ajithprasad, P. & Petrie, C. Temperature, compression and fragmentation: an experimental analysis to assess the impact of taphonomic processes on charcoal preservation. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2(4):307-320

2008 Ajithprasad. P. “Jaidak (Pithad): A Sorath Harappan site in District, Gujarat and its Architectural Features”. In Linguistics, Archaeology and Human Past. Occasional Paper 4. Toshiki Osada and Akinori Uesugi (Eds.). Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan: PP.83-99.

2007. Ajithprasad. P. “Formation Processes of the Acheulian sites of the Orsang Valley, Gujarat”. In Formation process and Indian Archaeology. K. Paddayya (Ed.). Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune: PP 79-91

2006. Ajithprasad. P. “The Rock Paintings in the Sukhi Valley and their Archaeological and Social context”. In Kerala Spectrum: Aspects of Cultural Inheritance. Charles Dias (Ed.). The Indo Portuguese Cultural Institute, Cochin: 15-46.

2005. Ajithprasad. P “Early Middle Palaeolithic: a Transition Phase between the Upper Acheulian and Middle Palaeolithic cultures in the Orsang Valley, Gujarat”. Man and Environment XXX(2):1-11

2005. Ajithprasad. P. “Palaeolithic Cultural Sequence in the Sukhi valley, Gujarat”. In River Valley Cultures of India K. K. Chakrabarty and G. L. Badam (Eds.) IGRMS Bhopal and Aryan Book International New Delhi: 83-98.

2005. Ajithprasad. P. “The Indus Civilization and its Cultural Heritage in Gujarat” In Heritage Tourism: Exploring the Future. Varum Maira (Ed.) Monograph, Govt. of Gujarat.

2005. K.K. Bhan, V. H. Sonawane, P. Ajithprasad and S. Pratapachandran 2005. Excavations of an Important Harappan Trading and Craft Production Centre at Gola -Dhoro (Bagasra), on the Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat, India. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in History and Archaeology Vol.1. No.2:153-158.

2004. Ajithprasad. P. Holocene Adaptation of the Mesolithic and Chalcolithic Settlements in North Gujarat. In Yasuda, Y and Vasant Shinde (Eds.) “Monsoon and Civilizations” Roli Books Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi: 115-132.

Ajithprasad Page 5 2016 2004 V.H Sonawane, P. Ajithprasad, K.K. Bhan, K. Krishnan, S. Pratapachandran, Abhijit Majumdar, Ajita K. Patel and Jaya Menon. “Excavations at Bagasra 1996-2003: A preliminary Report”. Man and Environment XXVIII (2)-2003 2004: 21-50

2002 Ajithprasad.P. “The Pre-Harappan Cultures of Gujarat”. In S. Settar and Ravi Korisettar (eds.) Indian Archaeology in Retrospect Vol.II Protohistory: Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization ICHR Manohar New Delhi: pp.129-158

2002 Ajithprasad. P. The Mesolithic Culture in the Orsang Valley, Gujarat. In Misra V.D and J.N. Pal (eds.) Mesolithic India Department of Ancient Indian History culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad: 154-189.

1997 Ajithprasad. P Acheulian Culture of the Orsang Valley: A Regional Approach. In Khanduri B.M. and Vinod Nautyal (Eds.) Him-Kanti: Archaeology, Art and History (Professor K.P Nautyal Felicitation Volume) Book India Publishing Co. Delhi 1997.pp. 11-18

1994 Sonawane, V. H and P. Ajithprasad “Harappa Culture and Gujarat”. Man and Environment XX (1-2): 37-49.

1990. Hegde, K. T. M, V. H. Sonawane, K. K. Bhan, P. Ajithprasad and K. Krishnan. “Excavation at Nagwada 1987-88: A Preliminary Report”. In Adaptation and Other Essays, (Proceedings of the Archaeological Conference 1988) Ghosh, N. C and Subrata Chakrabarti (Eds.): 191-196.

1988. Hegde, K.T.M., V.H. Sonawane, D. R. Shah, K. K. Bhan, P. Ajithprasad, K. Krishnan and S. Pratapachandran. “Excavations at Nagwada-1986 and 1987: A Preliminary Report” Man and Environment XII: 55-65

In Press • James Blinkhorn, P. Ajithprasad, Avinandan Mukherjee 2016. “A geoarchaeological approach to assessing coastal dispersals of modern humans: Palaeolithic occupations near the north- western Indian Coastline in Kachchh, Gujarat” Communicated to Geoarchaeology Journal

• Ajithprasad P. 2015 “Rock Art and Gujarat” in Pradhan Sadasiva (ed.) Felicitation Volume on V.H. Sonawane

• Madella M., Ajithprasad P., Balbo A., Rondelli B., Rodríguez D., Yannitto V., Garcia-Granero J.J., Lancelotti C., French C., Gadekar C.S., Rajesh S.V. “Proyectoarqueológico norte del Gujarat -- North Gujarat Archaeological Project – NoGAP”. Informes y Trabajos, vol 4, Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España.

• Francesc C. Conesa, Marco Madella, Nikolaos Galiatsatos, Andrea Balbo, Rajesh S. V. and Ajithprasad, P. “CORONA photographs in monsoonal semi-arid environments: addressing archaeological surveys and historic landscape dynamics over North Gujarat, India” In Archaeological Prospection:

Book Review: 1. Mesolithic Mahadaha: The Faunal Remains. P.P Joglekar, V.D. Misra, J.N. Pal and M.C. Gupta. 2003. Department of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology University of Allahabad, Allahabad. Pages 1999 Price not mentioned. In Puratattva (35) 2004-2005. pp.218 – 221.

2. The Afghan Connection, Pathak, P. V. Pen, District Raigad: Prajna Prakashan,

Ajithprasad Page 6 2016 Pages 88, and Price Rs. 100/- (1999). In Man and Environment XXIII (1) 2000

Seminar/Workshop Presentation International

2016 Ajithprasad. P., Y.S. Rawat, H. Teramura, T. Kishida and S. Pratapachandran “Cenotaphs of Dhaneti, Kachchh and their Cultural context” Presented in the 23rd Biennial conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), at Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K ; 4 to 8 July 2016

2015 Ajithprasad, P. Against Methods: Cognition and Lithic Technology” Presented in the Joint Annual Conference of the IAS, ISPQS and IHCS at the Department of History, University of Hyderabad: 17 to 20 Dec. 2015

2015 Ajithprasad. P., M. Madella, C. Gadekar, “Early Harappan Disc Beads and Stone Knapping Innovations” Presented at the 10th International symposium on Knappable Materials at the Universitat de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain: 7 to 11 September 2015

2015 Ajithprasad. P. “Early Harappan Bead Production in Gujarat: Technology, Adaptation and Contacts” Short term course cum Workshop on History, Science and Technology of Stone Beads at IIT , Gujarat: 10-14 August 2015

2015 Ajithprasad. P. “Gujarat and the Harappan Expansion Towards the South East of the Indus”. Presented at the Conference “Dialogue of Civilizations: Comparing Multiple Centres” at Peking University, Beijing, China 5 – 10 April 2015 (National Geographic Society, University College London, Peking University).

2014 Ajithprasad. P. Excavating Regional Harappan Sites: Comparing Bagasra and Shikarpur Pre-Conference Presentation 43rd South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A: 15 October 2014

2014 Ajithprasad. P. Excavations at Vaharvo Timbo, North Gujarat and New Evidence of Mesolithic – Chalcolithic Interaction. 43rd South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A; 16-18 October 2014

2014 Ajithprasad. P. “The Harappan Settlement Plan and Shikarpur, Gujarat” Presented in the 22nd Biannual conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Stockholm 30 June to 4 July 2014

2014 Brad Chase, David Meiggs, and P. Ajithprasad, “Pastoral Landscape of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat as revealed by Biogenic isotopes” Presented in the 22nd biannual conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Stockholm 30 June to 4 July 2014

2014 Charusmita Gadekar and P. Ajithprasad, “Lithic Assemblage variation during the Holocene, Gujarat” Presented in the 22nd biannual conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Stockholm 30 June to 4 July 2014

2014 F.C. Conesa, A. Balbo, M. Madella,B. Rondelli, C. Lancelotti and P. Ajithprasad, “A Matter of Scale: A geographical Approach to Holocene Archaeology in Semi Arid areas (North Gujarat, India)”. Presented in the 22nd biannual conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Stockholm 30 June to 4 July 2014

Ajithprasad Page 7 2016 2014 Carla Lancelotti, G. Orlando, V. Caracuta, G. Florentino, J.J. Garcia Granero, M. Madella and P. Ajithprasad, “Rainfall Pattern Temperature, ecology and human behaviour: all you can get from archaeological wood charcoal. Astudy fron Loteshwar, North Gujarat” Presented in the 22nd biannual conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Stockholm 30 June to 4 July 2014

2014 J.J. Garcia Granero, C. Lancelotti, M. Madella and P. Ajithprasad, “What is in the Thali? Holocene Plant Related Subsistence Strategies in North Gujarat”. Presented in the 22nd biannual conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Stockholm 30 June to 4 July 2014

2014 Ajithprasad. P. “Excavations at Shikarpur, Harappan site in Kutch, Gujarat and the Harappan Overseas Trade” Presented in the Workshop on the Shared Archaeological Heritage of Oman, India, Pakistan, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Oman,and US State Department. Muscat, Oman. 1 -10 April 2014

2014 Ajithprasad. P. “Palaeolithic Studies in Gujarat After Bruce Foote – and the Way Ahead” Presented in the international seminar on A hundred and fifty years of Pre-historic Archaeological Studies in India: Homage to Robert Bruce Foote. The Asiatic Society Kolkata; March 31-April 1, 2014

2013 Ajithprasad. P. “Late Pleistocene Palaeolithic remains and Hominin dispersal in Gujarat, Western India. Presented in the second Workshop of the Joint India-UK collaborative research entitled “Out of Africa, into South Asia” at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK from 16 to 18 April 2013

2013 August G. Costa, Jeffrey Illingworth, P. Ajithprasad, K. Bhan, and K. Krishnan “New perishable cord and textile traces from Shikarpur, a Harappan site in Kutch, western India” (Poster Presentation). Annual conference of the Society for American Archaeology at Honolulu, April 2013. Urbanism, Ecologies Adaptability and Climatic change in the Indus Civilization

2012 Ajithprasad. P, Kaoru Kubota, Yusuke Yokoyama, Saburo Sakai, Toshiki Osada “Otoliths and Oxygen Isotope Studies: Reconstructing the Holocene Palaeo-temperature of Western India” Annual conference of the Regional Science Congress, Baroda, 15 -16 Sept. 2012.

2012 Ajithprasad. P and M. Madella. “The Early Harappan Encounters and Chalcolithic Developments in Gujarat” 21st biannual Conference of the European Association for South Asia Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Paris, 2-6 July 2012

2012 B. Chase, P. Ajithprasad, A. Patel, B. Sharma and Rajesh.S .V. “Exploring Diversity: Material Variation at Two Harappan Settlements in Gujarat (India)” 21st biannual Conference of the European Association for South Asia Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Paris, 2-6 July 2012

2012 M. Madella, P. Ajithprasad, A.L. Balbo, F.C. Conesa, C. Gadekar, J.J. Garcia Granero, C. Lancelotti, J.L. Mateos, B. Rondelli and Rajesh S. V. “ Recent Excavations in North Gujarat: the NoGAP Project 2009, 2010, 2011 field seasons”. 21st biannual Conference of the European Association for South Asia Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Paris, 2-6 July 2012

2012 A.L. Balbo, B. Rondelli, C. Lancelotti, M. Madella, F. C. Conesa, P. Ajithprasad and G. Fiorentino. “Reconstructing Environment and Climate of North Gujarat during the

Ajithprasad Page 8 2016 Holocene: an Integrated Approach” 21st biannual Conference of the European Association for South Asia Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Paris, 2-6 July 2012

2012 F. C. Conesa, A.L. Balbo, B. Rondelli, M. Madella and P. Ajithprasad. “A Remote Sensing based approach for identifying geoarchaeological evidence in North Gujarat, India” 21st biannual Conference of the European Association for South Asia Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Paris, 2-6 July 2012.

2012 C. Lancelotti, B. Rondelli, M. Madella, A. Pecci,F. Inserra,A.L.Balbo, J.R. Perez, V. Yannitto, C. Gadekar, M. Madella, P. Ajithprasad and M. .A.Cau Ontiveros. Ethnoarchaeology of DomesticActivities in Northern Gujarat: A Spatial approach” 21st biannual Conference of the European Association for South Asia Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Paris, 2-6 July 2012

2012 Ajithprasad.P “Harappan Settlement features at Bagasra and Shikarpur in Gujarat: Unity and Diversity” Presented at the international Conference: Archaeology and cultural Heritage in Pakistan and Adjacent Regions organized by American Institute of Pakistan Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan from 5-8 January 2012.

2011 Ajithprasad.P “Blade-Flake Component and the Spread of Anatomically Modern Humans in the Sukhi Valley” Presented in the International Seminar on Human Evolution and Population Migration, 7-9 December 2011The Asiatic Society, Kolkata

2011 Ajithprasad. P “In Search of the First Farmers of Gujarat” Presented at the Visiting Researchers Forum at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. 4 August 2011.

2011 Ajithprasad. P “Excavations at Shikarpur 2010-11 Presented at the Annual Conference of the Indus Project 2011, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. 7 August 2011.

2011 Kaoru Kubota, Yusuke Yokoyama, Sauro Sakai, Hideaki Maemoku, Ajithprasad, Toshiki Osada. “Mid-Holocene Climate Reconstruction Using Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Composition of Modern and Fossil Catfish Otolith (Aropsis spp.) in North West India” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Indus Project 2011, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. 7 August 2011

2010 “Excavations at Shikarpur 2008 -2010: An Update” Paper presented at the Annual Seminar of the Indus Project, RIHN, Kyoto, Japan; 27 to 28 August 2010 .

2010 “The Harappan Urbanism and Aspects of Economic Production at Bagasra and Shikarpur in Gujarat”. Paper presented in the 20th Biannual Conference of the EASAA, Vienna, 4th to 9th July 2010.

2010 Ajithprasad. P “Late Pleistocene Hominin Records; Their Chronological and Technological Issues in Western India” Presented in the first Workshop of the Joint India- UK collaborative research entitled “Out of Africa, into South Asia” at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK from 29 to 31 October 2010.

2010 M. Madella, P. Ajithprasad, A. Balbo, B. Rondelli, L. Carla, C. French (2010). New Perspectives on Holocene hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and farmers of North Gujarat (India). European Association for South Asia Archaeology and Art Conference, Vienna, Austria, 8th July 2010.

Ajithprasad Page 9 2016 2010 Chase, Brad and P. Ajithprasad “Proximity and Distance: Subsistence Organization and Social Practice at Two Small Harappan Settlements in Gujarat” Paper presented in the 20th Biannual Conference of the European Association of the South Asian Archaeology and Arts (EASAA), Vienna, Austria; 8th July 2010.

2010 “The Pre-Prabhas Pottery and the Early Chalcolithic Cultural Developments in North Gujarat” Paper presentation in the International conference on “Harappa Culture and Gujarat” in , Kachchh, Gujarat, 28 – 29 January 2010

2010 The Anarta Chalcolithic Tradition of North Gujarat. Paper presentation in the International conference on “Harappa Culture and Gujarat” in Bhuj, Kachchh, Gujarat, 28 – 29 January 2010

2009 “The Harappan Burials in Gujarat” Paper presentation in the 13th Harvard University Round Table, “Ethnogenesis of the South and Central Asia” Kyoto Session, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan. 30 – 31May 2009

2008. “The Palaeolithic Remains and the Spread of Hominine Ancestors in the Orsang and the Valleys in Gujarat” Paper presented in the International Workshop on “Plio- Pleistocene Environment and Hominin Adaptations in India” in Bhopal; 1st to 5th Dec.2008. Stone Age Institute and Indiana University (USA) and Punjab University (India).

2008. “Cultural Patterns and the Early Harappan Interactions in Gujarat”. Paper presented in the International Conference on Cultural Relations Between the Indus and the Iranian Plateau During the Third Millennium BCE. Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan. 7 – 8 June 2008.

2007. “The Chronological and Cultural Context of the Harappan Cultural Remains at Jaidak in Gujarat”. Paper presented in the 36th Annual International Conference on South Asia, at The University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. 12-14 October 2007.

2007. International Indo-US Technology Conference on “Technology Transfer and Training for the Visualization of Archaeological Sites of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization” Baroda. The M. S. University of Baroda , Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and Global Heritage Fund. 17 to 20 March 2007.

2006. “The Harappan Black Slipped Jar from Bagasra, Gujarat and its Significance” Paper presented in the International Seminar on “Magan and Indus Civilization”, Baroda. The ASI and the M. S. University of Baroda. 4 – 5 January 2006.

2006. “The Acheulian Culture and its Stratigraphic Context in the Middle Sabarmati Valley”. Paper presented jointly with Sharma BP, Rajesh SV and Vinod V. in the First International conference of the Society of South Asian Archaeology (SOSAA) in Bombay. 16 to 18 December 2006.

2002. International Workshop on “Application of Computers in Archaeology” at HNB University, Srinagar, Garhwal, Uttaranchal, 18 to 20 October 2002. Participation.

2001. Holocene Adaptation of the Mesolithic and Chalcolithic Settlements in North Gujarat. Papers presented in the 2nd ALDP International Workshop “Monsoon and Civilizations” in Pune in January 2001.

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National

2013 Ajithprasad, P., K. Krishnan, K.K. Bhan and S. Pratapachandran “ Excavations at Shikarpur 2008-13: An Over View” 48th Annual conference of the IAS, BHU, Banaras, 12-14 Dec.2013

2013 Ajithprasad,P. “The Harappan Cooking and Serving Vessels from Shikarpur and the Importance of Harappan Cuisines” 8th National conference on Maritime Archaeology of Indian Ocean Countries, 1-2 July 2013, NIO, Goa

2011 “Recent Studies on the Beginning of Farming Economies and their Environmental Background in Gujarat” at the Orientation Course on Recent Advances in Archaeology (18th April – 02nd May 2011), Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. 21 April 2011

2007. “The Prabhas Assemblage and the Recent Exploration in the Saurashtra Coast of Gujarat”. Paper presented in the XXXI Annual Conference of the ISPQS at Raipur, Chhatisgarh. 1 to 4 December 2007.

2006. “The Quaternary Stratigraphy of the Acheulian Artefacts in the Middle Sabarmati Basin, Gujarat” Paper presentation. DST workshop on “Geo-archaeology and Human Response to Landscape Evolution” Anna University, Chennai. 13 to 15 October 2006.

2004. “Anarta: The Regional Chalcolithic Tradition of North Gujarat”. Paper presented in the Workshop on “Harappa Culture and Gujarat”. Dept. of Archaeology, The M..S. University of Baroda. 11 to 12 December 2004.

2003 “Pithad – A Sorath Harappan Settlement in , Gujarat” Paper presented in the XXXI Annual Conference of the ISPQS at Sri Venketeshwara University, Tirupati from 19 to 22 Dec. 2003

2001 “The Origin of the Sorath Harappans in the Light of Technology Dissemination”. Paper presented in the XXX annual conference of the ISPQS at Baroda in November 2001.

1999 “The Harappan Sequence at Rangpur and New Data from Bagasara”. Paper presented in the XXVII annual conference of the ISPQS at Deccan College, Pune in 1999.

1998a “Palaeolithic Settlements in the Sukhi Valley, Gujarat”. Paper presented in The National Conference on River Valley Civilization at the IGRMS in Bhopal in September 1998.

1998b “Excavations at Bagasra 1997-98: A Preliminary Report”. Paper presented jointly with V.H. Sonawane, K.K. Bhan, S. Pratapachandran and Abhijt Majumdar at the XXVI Annual conference of the ISPQS at Allahabad in November 1998.

1997 “Palaeolithic settlements in Jogpura, Sukhi Valley, Gujarat”. Paper Presented in the XXV annual Conference of the ISPQS at HNB University, Srinagar, Garhwal, UP in 1997

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1996 “The Mesolithic Culture of the Orsang Valley”. National Seminar on The Mesolithic Culture in India at Allahabad University, Allahabad in March 1996.

1995 Datrana: A Chalcolithic Blade Industry site in North Gujarat Paper presented jointly with V.H. Sonawane, V.S. Parekh and P.C. Chaudhari in the XXIII Annual Conference of the ISPQS at Gorakhpur in 1995.

1993a “The Harappa Culture in North Gujarat: A Regional Paradigm”. Paper Presented in the National Workshop on “The Harappa Culture in Gujarat” in 1993 at Deccan College Pune 1993b The Acheulian Culture of the Sukhi valley: Preliminary Report. Paper presented in the XXI Annual Conference of the ISPQS at Berielly in 1993.

1993c Otoliths and the Mesolithic Culture in North Gujarat. Paper presented in the XXI Annual Conference of the ISPQS at Bereilly in 1993.

1992 Microlithic Blade Technique: A Case Study. Paper presented in the XX Annual Conference of the ISPQS at Dharwar in 1992.

1990 The Acheulian Culture of the Orsang Valley: A Regional Approach. Paper presented in the XVIII Annual Conference of the ISPQS at Kanyakumari in 1990.

1989 Early Middle Palaeolithic: A Transition Phase between upper Acheulian and the Middle Palaeolithic periods in the Orsang Valley, Gujarat. Paper Presented in the XVII Annual Conference of the ISPQS at Guntur in 1989.

Invited Talks

1. Dr. A.P Khatri Memmorial Lecture “ Palaeoloithic Cultural Developments and Modern Human dispersal in Gujarat” at the 48th Annual conference of the IAS 14 Dec. 2013, BHU, Banaras.

2. Rao Bahadur K.N. Dixit Endowment Fund memorial talk, “Excavations at Shikarpur: A Harappan site in Gujarat, Western India”, 4 Oct. 2012, South Asia Study Centre, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

3. Dept.of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA., In Search of the First Farmers of Gujarat, Western India, 9 Oct. 2012.

4. Department of Anthropology, Albion College, Albion, USA, In Search of the First Farmers of Gujarat, Western India, 5 Oct. 2012

5. Dept. of Anthropology, New York University, New York, USA, In Search of the First Farmers of Gujarat, Western India, 17 October 2012

6. Dept. of Anthropology, New York University, New York, USA, Excavations at Shikarpur: A Harappan site in Gujarat, Western India, 18 October 2012

Field Experience: Excavation 2016 January – February : Member of the Excavation team at Vejalka, A Sorath Harappan site in district, Gujarat

2015 January – February : Member of the Excavation team at Vejalka, A Sorath Harappan site in , Gujarat

Ajithprasad Page 12 2016 2014 January – February : Excavation at Shikarpur, A Classical Harappan site in Bhachau taluka, of Kachchh district, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Director of the Excavation.

2013 January – February : Excavation at Shikarpur, A Classical Harappan site in Bhachau taluka, of Kachchh district, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Director of the Excavation.

2012 January – February: Member of the Department’s Excavation team at Shikarpur, A Classical Harappan site in Bhachau taluka, of Kachchh district, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefact and other excavated remains.

2011 November – December: Excavation at Vaharvo Timbo, A Mesolithic site in the Sami taluka of in north Gujarat. Collaborative excavation with IMF, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain. Job Assignment: Director of excavation.

2011 January – February: Member of the Department’s Excavation team at Shikarpur, A Classical Harappan site in Bhachhau taluka, of Kachchh district, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefact and other remains.

2010 November – December: Excavation at Datrana, A Mesolithic- Early Chalcolithic site in the Sami taluka of Patan district in north Gujarat. Collaborative excavation with IMF, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain. Job Assignment: Director of excavation.

2010 January – March: Member of the Department’s Excavation team at Shikarpur, A Classical Harappan site in Bhachhau taluka, of Kachchh district, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefact and other remains.

2009 October – November: Excavation at Loteshwar, A Mesolithic- Early Chalcolithic site in the Sami taluka of Patan district an Early Chalcolithic site in north Gujarat. Collaborative excavation with IMF, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain. Job Assignment: Director of excavation.

2009 January - March: Member of the Department’s Excavation team at Shikarpur, A Classical Harappan site in Bhachhau taluka, of Kachchh district, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefact and other remains.

2008 January - February: Member of the Department’s excavation team at Shikarpur, a Classical Harappan site in Bhachhau taluka of Kachchh district, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefact and other remains.

2007 January – February: Member of the Department’s excavation team at Pithad/Jaidak, a Sorath Harappan site in Jodia Taluka of Jamnagar district, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefact and other remains.

1996 to 2005: Member of the Department's excavation team at Bagasra, a Mature Harappan site in Maliya Taluka, District, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefact and other remains.

1996 November- December: Conducted excavations at Jogpura, a primary Acheulian site in Pavi jetpur Taluka, Baroda District, Gujarat Job Assignment: Director of Excavation

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1995 January - February: Member of the Department's excavation team at Datrana, a Harappan affiliated Chalcolithic site, in , , Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefacts and other remains.

1994 December - January: Conducted excavation at Ambakut, a Mesolithic rock-shelter, in Pavi Jetpur, Baroda District, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Director of excavation.

1994 January: Carried out a trial-excavation at Datrana, Banaskantha District, as a part of Department's excavation programme. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefacts and other remains.

1994 February: Member of the excavation team at Santhli, a Chalcolithic site in Banaskantha District, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefacts and other remains.

1993 January - February: Member of the excavation team at Moti Pipli, a Chalcolithic site in Banaskantha District, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefacts and other remains.

1992 January - February: Member of the Department's excavation team at Pithad, a Harappan site, in Jodia Taluka, Jamnagar District, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefacts and other remains.

1991 January - February: Member of the Department's excavation team at Loteshwar, a Mesolithic and Chalcolithic site, in Sami Taluka, District, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefacts and other remains.

1986 to 1990 : Member of the Department's excavation team at Nagwada, a Harappan affiliated Chalcolithic site, in Dasada Taluka, , Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefacts and other remains.

1985 February - April: Member of the Department's excavation team at Ratanpura, a Late Harappan site, in Sami Taluka, , Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefacts and other remains.

1984 January - February: Member of the Department's excavation team at Nageshwar, a Harappan site, in Jamnagar District, Gujarat. Job Assignment: Excavation, classification and recording of artefacts and other remains.

1983 December: Participated in the joint excavation at the Ancient Zinc distillation site at Zawar in Udaipur, , by the Department of Archaeology, the M. S. University of Baroda and British Museum, London in 1983. Job Assignment: Excavation and classification of artefacts and other excavated remains.

III. Exploration/surveys

2016 February: Subsurface investigation of the prehistoric burials at Dhaneti, Kachchh using GPR and GIS tools.

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2010-11 Directed the survey of Harappan and other Chalcolithic cites in North Gujarat, Kachchh and Saurashtra for the Gujarat Harappan Site Gazetteer Project (GHSG) in collaboration with the Indus Project of the RIHN, Kyoto, Japan

2009 Conducted geomorphological survey and sedimentary sample collection across a transept from the Aravali foothills to the Little Rann of Kachchh in North Gujarat as a part of the Geomorphological studies in the NoGAP research Project.

2008. Conducted a geomorphological survey and sedimentary sample collection from north Gujarat sites in collaboration with Dr. Marco Madella, IMF, Barcelona Spain, Dr. Charles C French and Carla Lancelotti of the University of Cambridge UK. in March 2008. The study was a part of the North Gujarat Archaeological Project and was sponsored by the project.

2006 Exploration along the Saurashtra coast of Junagadh and districts for locating Prabhas and Harappan Chalcolithic cultures in October 2006 and located 13 new Chalcolithic sites and 14 Historic period sites. The exploration was supported by the UGC SAP project (Phase-I)

2005 Exploration in the Vera and other tributary streams of the Sabarmati near Dheroi in November 2005 and located 27 primary context Acheulian sites and a Mesolithic site as a part of the Prehistoric and Palaeoenvironmental studies in the middle Sabarmati basin sponsored by the UGC SAP project (Phase-I).

2004 Exploration in the Debhol stream, a tributary of the Sabarmati river in Nov. 2004 and located 21 Primary context Acheulian sites and a Mesolithic painted rock-shelter as a part of the Prehistoric and Palaeoenvironmental studies in the middle Sabarmati basin sponsored by the UGC SAP project.

1992 - 95. Exploration in the Sukhi valley, a tributary of the Orsang in 1992, 1993 and 1995 resulted in the discovery of 30 Primary Acheulian sites and a number of Mesolithic rock-shelters with prehistoric paintings. (As a part of the research project, "Prehistoric Archaeology and the Palaeo-environmental Studies in the Sukhi Valley" sponsored by the Ford Foundation Grant)

1990 - 94. Participated in the explorations carried out by the Department in 1985 and from 1990 to 1994 in the north Gujarat region, resulting into the discovery of more than 90 Harappan affiliated Chalcolithic and a few Mesolithic sites.

1985-88 Conducted Prehistoric explorations in the Orsang Valley, Gujarat, during the period between 1985 and 1988 and discovered 32 primary Acheulian sites, 6 early Middle Palaeolithic and 20 Mesolithic sites in the Middle Orsang Valley.

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