
Ongoing Projects and Grants in the Lab
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Title: Dholavira Worked Bone Assemblage:
A Study of its Experimental Reproduction and Digitization
Sponsoring Agent: ICHR
Year: 2021-2023
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Title: Reconstruction of Human-Animal Interactions at the World Heritage Harappan Site of Dholavira, Gujarat, India: Inferences from Isotopic Composition of Archaeological Bone and Teeth Remains
Other PI: Prof. Debajyoti Paul
Sponsoring Agency: SERB POWER GRANT
Year: 2022- 2025
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Title: Looking through the Culinaryscapes:
Exploring the Traditional Food Practices
and Food Memories of Dholavira and Janan
village, Rann of Kachchh, Gujarat
Mentor: Prof. Sharada CV
Grant Awardee: Camellia & Ahana
Sponsoring Agency: INTACH Research Academy (Student Scholarship)
Year: 2024-25
Sites and Resources Under Current Study
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INDIA
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Dholavira
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Bhagatrav
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Dhaneti
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Shikarpur
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Bagasra
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Karanpura
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Ropar
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Surkotada
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Tigrana
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Kotada Bhadli
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Uppalapadu
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Hallur
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Piklhal
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Gaudur
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Kupgal
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Hiregudda
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Sannarachammagudda
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Choudammagudda
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Kurugodu
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Tekkalkota
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Tadbidi
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Hattibelegal
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Kudathini
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Wattagal
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Palavai
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Birappa
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Budipadaga
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ARMENIA
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Vedi
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FRANCE​
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Grotte du Lazaret
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Caune de l'Arago
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ITALY
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Isernia La Pineta
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Riparo Tagliente
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Grotta della Ghiacciaia

Projects Guided by Prof. Sharada at IIT Gandhinagar (completed)
SEMESTER BASED RESEARCH PROJECTS & SEMINARS
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Bhavna Harchandani (HSS, PhD Student)- A Sociological Study of Animal-assisted Therapy in Western Urban India
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Maithili Tagare (HSS, PhD Student)- Understanding the Economic-Religious Significance of Harappan Seals
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Camellia Biswas (HSS, PhD Student)- Linking Indigenous Knowledge to Western-Scientific Knowledge in the Age of Anthropocene: Textual Analysis of Sosobonga and Dancing on the Turtle's Back
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Dalia N (HSS, PhD Student)- What's in a Name? Memory Against Revisionism in Post-Dictatorial Argentina
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Seema Kumari (Electrical Engg, PhD Student)- Preservation of Rock-Art Images by Enhancement Techniques
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Sreejith Nair (Biological Engg, PhD Student)- Is Homo Deus the Future?
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Shradha Menon (Earth Sciences, PhD Student)- Refining Human Migration Stories Using Stable Isotopes
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Ahana Ghosh (HSS, PhD Student)- Understanding Hero-Cult in Bengal's Context
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Sreejith Nair (Biological Engg, PhD Student)A Paleoproteomics Approach for Identification of Animal Species from Dholavira's Faunal Assemblages
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Shradha Menon (Earth Sc., PhD Student)- Understanding Diagenesis in Archaeological Bones
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Payal Vaswani (Biological Engg, PhD Student)- Bone Artefacts Use-Wear Analysis
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Dalia N (HSS, PhD Student)- 'In Search of Returning'
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Anupam Sharma (HSS, PhD Student)- Role of Animal Companionship on Psychological Well-being of Indian Adults: A Mixed Method Study
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Poorva Salvi (HSS, PhD Student)- Bone Artefact Traceology: Problems and Perspectives
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Ungka Padi (HSS, PhD Student)- Investigation of Gastropod Shell Remains from Bambhanka, Khadir Island, Kachchh
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Praveen Venkatesh (Btech)- ASCRepo: Towards a Large-scale Digital Repository of Bones and Artefacts
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Poorva Salvi (HSS, PhD Student)- Bhagatrav Faunal Assemblage: Bone Modifications
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Saurabh Mishra (HSS, PhD Student)- Does Size Matter? Origin of Microliths and their Debates in the Indian Context
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Tanisha Bhadury (HSS, PhD Student)- Women, Science, and Arts: A Study of Bird Paintings in India from the Eighteenth Century
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Jagriti (HSS, PhD Student)- The History of Cheetah in Mughal and the British Periods
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Ungka Padi (HSS, PhD Student)- Taphonomical Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Archaeological Site of Uppalapadu, Andhra Pradesh
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Muhammad Yusuf Hassan and Harshil Ramolia (Btech): ASCRepo: Towards a Large Scale Digital Repository of Bones and Artefacts
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Parul Tiwari (HSS, PhD Student)- A Study of the Idea of Animality through Prehistoric Cave Paintings and the Surrealist Rethinking of ‘Becoming-Animal’
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Parul Tiwari (HSS, PhD Student)- Jinn’s Transformation into Animals and the Forms of Knowledge it Produces in Islam
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Debasmita Ghosh (HSS, PhD Student)- Reviewing the Worked Bone Assemblages from the Harappan sites in Gujarat and Haryana
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Sreelakshmi KS (HSS, PhD Student)- Ritualistic Feasting in Vayanattukulavan Theyyam
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Haritha Kadapa (HSS, PhD Student)- A Spatio-temporal Distribution of Dholavira Faunal Remains
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Reuben Devanesan and Kamal Vaishnav (Btech)- Android App for Archaeozoological Research
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Avi Somani (HSS, MA Student)- Effect of Climate Change on People with Albinism
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Angad Lamba (HSS, PhD Student)- Animal Iconography in Textiles
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Anshika Singh (HSS, MA Student)- Tracing Human-Animal Relationship: A Mortuary Perspective from Prehistoric to Early Metal Ages
SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP PROJECTS
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Android App for Archaeozoological Research Data Documentation
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Open Access web-based Data Bank of Isotope Values from South Asian Archaeological Researchers
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​A Study of Bronze Age Worked Bone Assemblages