Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

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, Vadodara, India. 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 Gujarat. 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. North Gujarat 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 Gulf of Kutch, 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

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