Publications

Books

Upcoming (2025-26)

C. Biswas and S. Channarayapatna, Animal Past in the Anthropocene: Exploring Human-Animal Relationships through Environmental Humanities; for the Book series on Environmental Humanities - Past, Present and Future Econarratives (University of Exeter Press)

2023

P. Goyal, G.S. Abhayan and S. Channarayapatna, Animals in Archaeology, Integrating Landscapes, Environment and
Humans in South Asia - a festschrift for Prof P.P. Joglekar; University of Kerala, Trivandrum. (ISBN
978-93-5810-902-3).

2018

S. Channarayapatna, A Study of Animal Utilization Strategies from Early to Late Harappan Periods in Haryana; South
Asian Archaeology Series 3. Edited by Akinori Uesugi. Kyoto, Japan. (ISBN 978-4-9909150-3-2).

Book Chapters

2024

A. Ghosh and S. Channarayapatna, Exploring the culinary landscape and gender role inside the Rasōḍuṁs: A study of Dholavira village, Bhachau Taluka, Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, in Gender and Landscape (Sharmishtha Chatterjee and Moumita Dey Eds.), Primus Books ISBN:978-93-5852-778-0.
C. Biswas, Exploring Heritage Sustainability of Sundarban Landscape in Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Nature and Cultural Heritage: An Integrated Approach, Brill Publication (In Press).

2021

Shankar, Ravi, P. Joglekar, S. Channarayapatna, and A. K. Singh, A typo-technological study of bone artifacts from Agiabir, India (2400-900 BCE), in Bones at a Crossroads. Integrating Worked Bone Research with Archaeometry and Social Zooarchaeology (M. Wild, B. A. Thurber, St. Rhodes, and C. Gates St-Pierre Eds. (2021): 31-50, Sidestone Press, Leiden. (ISBN 9789464270068).

2018

N. Naskar, K. Gangopadhya, S. Lahiri, A. Ghosh, P. Chaudhuri, R. Sharma, P. Sharma, S. Ohja and S. Chopra. New Dates from the Site of Erenda, East Medinipur District, West Bengal: Implications for Indian Protohistory; Applications of Radiotracers and Energetic Beams in Sciences, Vol 5, Extended abstracts of the invited and contributed papers of the Fourth International Conference on Applications of Radiotracers and Energetic Beams in Sciences. Edited by Susanta Lahiri, pp. 115-116. https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:50005806

2016

Joglekar, P.P. and C.V. Sharada, Report on the Faunal Remains from Madina, Rohtak District, Haryana, in Excavations at Madina, District Rohtak, Haryana, India; South Asian Archaeology Series I. Edited by Manmohan Kumar, Akinori Uesegi and Vivek Dangi, pp. 209-247. Kyoto, Japan. (ISBN 978-4-9909150-0-0-1).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2024

A. Ghosh, V.N. Prabhakar, E. A. Reber, H. Liston, S.Kirubakaran, K.S. Sreelakshmi, U.Talekar, M.Bhardwaj, A.Vishwakarma, and S. Channarayapatna. Does form entail function? Understanding pottery functionalities through absorbed residues within ceramics from the Harappan sites of Karanpura and Ropar in India, Quaternary Environments and Humans, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100050.
C. Biswas, S. Channarayapatna, and C.N. Pandey. Livelihood and Beyond Relations of Sundarban locals with Mangrove, Journal of Human Ecology, Springer Nature. (Under Review).
A. Ghosh and S. Channarayapatna. Food Memories and Diaspora of Culinary Traditions: Echoes from Voices of Displacement in the Rural Scape of Dholavira, India. Ethnoarchaeology, 16(1) 100-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2024.2338338.

2023

N. Naskar, C. Shaha, A. Ghosh, and K. Gangopadhyay. Study on distribution of radionuclides in soil and pottery samples of archaeological sites of eastern India. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 333, 1585-1595. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-023-09214-7.

2022

A. Ghosh. From the cradle to the grave: Understanding food processing in the ancient Harappan habitational site of Dholavira in the burial site of Dhaneti, SAS Summer Bulletin.
C. Biswas, and S. Channarayapatna. Marginalization of Sundarbans’ Marichjhapi: Ecocriticism Approaches in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Deep Halder’s Blood Island. MDPI Literature 2(3), 169-178. https://doi.org/10.3390/literature2030014.
C. Biswas. Reimaging human-nature interactions and reclaiming marginal identity through folk narratives of Sundarbans. Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies, 7(2), 32-51.
Ghosh, D., Sanyal, S and Ghosh, A. (2022). People’s perceptions of their heritage: A case study of Chinsura, West Bengal, India. Makaut, (In Press).
P. Valensi, A. Roussel, S Channarayapatna, K El Guennouni, D Cauche, and V Michel, Au temps des derniers acheuléens du sud-est de la France. Nouvelle synthèse sur les faunes de grands mammifères du Pléistocène moyen de la grotte du Lazaret (Nice, France). Bulletin du Musée d’Anthropologie préhistorique de Monaco, Actes du colloque international: Les premiers peuplements préhistoriques des Alpes-Maritimes, de Monaco et de Ligurie au sein de leurs paléoenvironnements 61, 103-119.
P. Ingole, and C. Biswas. Caste, Climate (In)Justice, and the Dalit Distress. ReFrame- Mariwala Health Initiative Journal, no. 5, pp. 30–3. Retrieved from https://reframe2022.mhi.org.in/revisions/caste-climate-injustice-and-the-dalit-distress

2021

A. Ghosh and T. Sengupta. Memorial stones and their unknown builders: Archaeology of lesser-known facts. Travas, Zenodo, European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5092912
C. Biswas. Nature and dynamics of resilience and vulnerability: A decolonized approach, Travas, Zenodo, European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), 1-5. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/0.5281/zenodo.509311.
Naskar. N, Gangopadhyay. K, Lahiri. S, Chaudhuri. P, Sharma. R, Kumar. P, Ojha. S, Chopra. S and Ghosh. A. New AMS dates of a Multicultural Archaeological Site from The Paleo-deltaic Region of West Bengal, India: Cultural and Geo-Archaeological Implications. Radiocarbon, 63(6), 1645- 1655. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2021.111
S.K. Das, K. Gangopadhyay, A. Ghosh, A. Biswas, S. Bera, P. Ghosh, D. K. Paruya, N. Naskar, D. Mani, M. S. Kalpana, K. Yoshida. Organic geochemical and palaeobotanical reconstruction of a protohistoric settlement in Eastern India. Holocene 31(1), 1- 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09596836211025970

2020

A. Ghosh, C. Shaha and A. Reza. Recently discovered intertidal sites along the shoreline of Bay of Bengal: East Medinipur District, West Bengal, Pratna Samiksha: A Journal of Archaeology. New series, 11, 1-22.
A. Pineda, S. Channarayapatna, G. Lembo, C. Peretto, P. Saladie and U. Thun Hohenstein, A taphonomic and zooarchaeological study of the early Middle Pleistocene 3 colluvial level from Isernia La Pineta (Molise, Italy). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102469.
C. Biswas. Book Review of Deep Halder’s Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre. Contemporary Literary Review India, 7 (3), pp. 253-62, doi:10.201411/clri.v7i3.545. https://www.literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/545/781

2019

Biswas, C & Pandey, C.N. (2019). Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability: A Case Study of Nalsarovar Lake, Gujarat. International Journal of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, 10, pp:01-12. SERSC Australia. ISSN: 2005-4289.

2018

S. Channarayapatna, G. Lembo, C. Peretto and U. Thun Hohenstein, Application of GIS to study the distribution of select taphonomic agents and their effects on the faunal remains from 3 Colluvium level of Isernia La Pineta. Quaternaire 29 (1): 31-38, 0.707, 0.614.

2017

M. Hassani, P. Valensi, S. C. Visweswara, V. Michel, K. El. Guennouni and H. de Lumley, Les petits ongulés de la grotte Acheuléano-Moustérienne du Lazaret (Nice, France) - Origine anthropique ou carnivore? L’Anthropologie 121: 367-393, 0.370, 0.52.
P.P. Joglekar, C. V. Sharada and V.S. Shinde, Animal remains from the Mature Harappan contexts at Farmana, Rohtak district, Haryana. Puratattva 47, 101-114.

2014

C. V. Sharada, P.P. Joglekar and V.S. Shinde, Faunal Remains from Girawad (2006-2007), District Rohtak, Haryana. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 2, 421-441.

2013

P.P. Joglekar, C.V. Sharada and G.S Abhayan, Faunal Diversity during the Harappan Period in Haryana: A Review. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 1, 262-287.

2012

C. V. Sharada, P.P. Joglekar and V.S. Shinde, Faunal remains from Late Harappan Phase at Mitathal, Bhiwani District, Haryana. Man and Environment 37 (1), 31-41.

2006

C. V. Sharada and P.P. Joglekar. Understanding the Post Depositional Bone Modification Processes: an Actualistic Approach. Puratattva 36, 280-287.