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Ongoing Projects and Grants in the Lab

01

Title: Dholavira Worked Bone Assemblage:

A Study of its Experimental Reproduction and Digitization

Sponsoring Agent: ICHR

Year: 2021-2023

02

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

03

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

  • Dholavira

  • Bhagatrav

  • Dhaneti

  • Shikarpur

  • Bagasra

  • Karanpura

  • Ropar

  • Surkotada

  • Tigrana

  • Kotada Bhadli

  • Uppalapadu

  • Hallur

  • Piklhal

  • Gaudur

  • Kupgal

  • Hiregudda

  • Sannarachammagudda

  • Choudammagudda

  • Kurugodu

  • Tekkalkota

  • Tadbidi

  • Hattibelegal

  • Kudathini

  • Wattagal

  • Palavai

  • Birappa

  • Budipadaga

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ARMENIA

  • Vedi

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FRANCE​

  • Grotte du Lazaret

  • Caune de l'Arago

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ITALY

  • Isernia La Pineta

  • Riparo Tagliente

  • Grotta della Ghiacciaia

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Projects Guided by Prof. Sharada at IIT Gandhinagar (completed)

SEMESTER BASED RESEARCH PROJECTS & SEMINARS

  1. Bhavna Harchandani (HSS, PhD Student)- A Sociological Study of Animal-assisted Therapy in Western Urban India

  2. Maithili Tagare (HSS, PhD Student)- Understanding the Economic-Religious Significance of Harappan Seals

  3. 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

  4. Dalia N (HSS, PhD Student)- What's in a Name? Memory Against Revisionism in Post-Dictatorial Argentina

  5. Seema Kumari (Electrical Engg, PhD Student)- Preservation of Rock-Art Images by Enhancement Techniques

  6. Sreejith Nair (Biological Engg, PhD Student)- Is Homo Deus the Future? 

  7. Shradha Menon (Earth Sciences, PhD Student)- Refining Human Migration Stories Using Stable Isotopes

  8. Ahana Ghosh (HSS, PhD Student)- Understanding Hero-Cult in Bengal's Context

  9. Sreejith Nair (Biological Engg, PhD Student)A Paleoproteomics Approach for Identification of Animal Species from Dholavira's Faunal Assemblages

  10. Shradha Menon (Earth Sc., PhD Student)- Understanding Diagenesis in Archaeological Bones

  11. Payal Vaswani (Biological Engg, PhD Student)- Bone Artefacts Use-Wear Analysis

  12. Dalia N (HSS, PhD Student)- 'In Search of Returning'

  13. Anupam Sharma (HSS, PhD Student)- Role of Animal Companionship on Psychological Well-being of Indian Adults: A Mixed Method Study

  14. Poorva Salvi (HSS, PhD Student)- Bone Artefact Traceology: Problems and Perspectives

  15. Ungka Padi (HSS, PhD Student)- Investigation of Gastropod Shell Remains from Bambhanka, Khadir Island, Kachchh

  16. Praveen Venkatesh (Btech)- ASCRepo: Towards a Large-scale Digital Repository of Bones and Artefacts

  17. Poorva Salvi (HSS, PhD Student)- Bhagatrav Faunal Assemblage: Bone Modifications

  18. Saurabh Mishra (HSS, PhD Student)- Does Size Matter? Origin of Microliths and their Debates in the Indian Context 

  19. Tanisha Bhadury (HSS, PhD Student)- Women, Science, and Arts: A Study of Bird Paintings in India from the Eighteenth Century 

  20. Jagriti (HSS, PhD Student)- The History of Cheetah in Mughal and the British Periods 

  21. Ungka Padi (HSS, PhD Student)- Taphonomical Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Archaeological Site of Uppalapadu, Andhra Pradesh 

  22. Muhammad Yusuf Hassan and Harshil Ramolia (Btech): ASCRepo: Towards a Large Scale Digital Repository of Bones and Artefacts 

  23. Parul Tiwari (HSS, PhD Student)- A Study of the Idea of Animality through Prehistoric Cave Paintings and the Surrealist Rethinking of ‘Becoming-Animal’ 

  24. Parul Tiwari (HSS, PhD Student)- Jinn’s Transformation into Animals and the Forms of Knowledge it Produces in Islam

  25. Debasmita Ghosh (HSS, PhD Student)- Reviewing the Worked Bone Assemblages from the Harappan sites in Gujarat and Haryana 

  26. Sreelakshmi KS (HSS, PhD Student)- Ritualistic Feasting in Vayanattukulavan Theyyam 

  27. Haritha Kadapa (HSS, PhD Student)- A Spatio-temporal Distribution of Dholavira Faunal Remains

  28. Reuben Devanesan and Kamal Vaishnav (Btech)- Android App for Archaeozoological Research

  29. Avi Somani (HSS, MA Student)- Effect of Climate Change on People with Albinism

  30. Angad Lamba (HSS, PhD Student)- Animal Iconography in Textiles

  31. Anshika Singh (HSS, MA Student)- Tracing Human-Animal Relationship: A Mortuary Perspective from Prehistoric to Early Metal Ages

SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP PROJECTS

  1. Android App for Archaeozoological Research Data Documentation

  2. Open Access web-based Data Bank of Isotope Values from South Asian Archaeological Researchers

  3. ​A Study of Bronze Age Worked Bone Assemblages

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