P Ajithprasad
Biographic Data
| ID | 114897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Ajithprasad |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Ajithprasad |
| SIGNATURE | AJITHPRASAD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Middle Pleistocene occupations at Chhajoli, Rajasthan, India
Western India marks a critical biogeographic threshold, making it an important region to explore patterns of hominin occupation and adaptation in the Pleistocene. Focus on exploring evidence for hominin expansions across this threshold have drawn interest to the Late Pleistocene, whereas despite a broad Lower Palaeolithic record, earlier occupations are sparse, notably the Late Acheulean occupation at Singi Talav, as well as sparse presence at 16…
Why change what works? Technological resilience in Harappan pottery from Bagasra (c. 2450–1900 BCE), Gujarat
This pilot study investigates the resilience of pottery manufacturing at a fortified coastal Harappan settlement of Bagasra (Gujarat, India; c. 2450–1900 BCE). • LED microscopy and portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) was performed on 73 samples, of which 17 were further examined using SEM–EDS, FTIR, and XRD. • Four clay paste groups were identified (<SiO 2 -rich, balanced, <Al 2 O 2 -rich, and <CaO + MgO-rich), of which three remained stable throu…
Ichthyoarchaeological perspectives on roles of fish and red meat during Indus Civilization in Gujarat, India
The roles of animals during the Indus Civilization (circa 4000 BCE to 1300 BCE), which thrived in South Asia, have been extensively studied by zooarchaeologists. While significant progress has been made in understanding the domestication and hunting of mammals, information on the use of aquatic organisms such as fish, mollusks, and crustaceans has been relatively sparse. Excavations at Indus Civilization sites have uncovered substantial quantitie…
Coasting into India? - Assessing lithostratigraphic context of Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Saurashtra Peninsula
The coastal rim of the Indian subcontinent is believed to have played a crucial role in the dispersal of early Modern Humans from Africa into the Indian subcontinent during the Late Pleistocene. However, the paucity of substantial evidence along the Indian coastal margins has made it difficult to assess this hypothesis directly. The peninsular region of Saurashtra in Gujarat (India) is one of the key regions that possesses a vast coastline of ∼16…
Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Gundlakamma River basin, Andhra Pradesh, India and their role in evaluating Late Pleistocene behavioral change in South Asia
The eruption of Toba ca. 75 ka was the largest volcanic eruptive event during the Quaternary, and evidence for this eruption is widespread in terrestrial sediment sequences in South Asia as primary and reworked distal ash deposits. Youngest Toba Tuff horizons (YTT) have been widely employed as isochrons to understand and link regional sediment sequences and the evidence for environmental and cultural change in the archaeological records preserved…
Assessing Systematic Blade Production in the Indian Subcontinent with Special Reference to Eastern Gujarat
Blades as a component of lithic assemblages hold significant importance to understanding the more recent part of human evolution, particularly with regard to the emergence and adaptations of Homo sapiens. The systematic production of elongated stone blanks provides several advantages, including a longer cutting edge and high efficiency in raw material utility. However, the reasons behind the development of these technological forms and the chrono…
An Early Presence of Modern Human or Convergent Evolution? A 247 ka Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage from Andhra Pradesh, India
Pastoralism, climate change, and the transformation of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: Faunal analyses and biogenic isotopes
Lithic Blade Implements and their Role in the Harappan Chalcolithic Cultural Development in Gujarat
What is left behind: Advancing interpretation of pastoral land-use in Harappan Gujarat using herbivore dung to examine biosphere strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) variation
Multi-proxy survey of open-air surface scatters in drylands: Archaeological and physico-chemical characterisation of fossilised dunes in North Gujarat (India)
Did Modern Human Dispersal Take a Coastal Route into India? New Evidence from Palaeolithic Surveys of Kachchh, Gujarat
The Indian Ocean coastline is argued to have been a critical route of modern human dispersal from Africa, introducing Late Palaeolithic industries into South Asia, but a dearth of evidence has prevented a direct evaluation of this. Kachchh (Gujarat, India), located immediately east of the Indus Delta, is an important setting to appraise the Palaeolithic occupation of the western Indian coastline. Targeted survey of Late Pleistocene sediments ther…
What is on the craftsmen's menu? Plant consumption at Datrana, a 5000-year-old lithic blade workshop in North Gujarat, India
Fossil otoliths, from the Gulf of Kutch, Western India, as a paleo-archive for the mid- to late-Holocene environment
Millets and Herders: The Origins of Plant Cultivation in Semiarid North Gujarat (India)
Botanical evidence suggests that North Gujarat (India) was a primary center of plant domestication during the mid-Holocene. However, lack of systematic archaeobotanical research and significant taphonomic processes have so far hampered the possibility of substantiating this hypothesis. This paper explores the role of plants in the subsistence strategies of early-middle Holocene populations in this semiarid region and the processes leading to plan…
Middle Palaeolithic point technologies in the Thar Desert, India
When Knowledge Follows Blood: Kin Groups and the Distribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Community of Seminomadic Pastoralists, Gujarat (India)
Understanding the patterns and processes underlying the heterogeneous distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) across communities of natural resource users is a growing research topic. However, social organization as a factor potentially shaping TEK intracultural distribution has received scant attention. Here, we analyze the role played by kinship groups-namely, patrilineal lineages and segments-in shaping bodies of TEK among a gro…
Materializing Harappan identities: Unity and diversity in the borderlands of the Indus Civilization
A microarchaeological approach for the study of pits
The study of the technology underlying pre-industrial storage structures has an interest from an anthropological and archaeological perspective, in terms of the evolution of key cultural and cognitive capabilities, often related to the transition to food production.Microarchaeological techniques offer a unique perspective on the study of pre-industrial storing technologies. In this work, examples are presented from two archaeological contexts in …
Corona Photographs in Monsoonal Semi‐arid Environments: Addressing Archaeological Surveys and Historic Landscape Dynamics over North Gujarat, India
Here we illustrate a ground map approach that uses orthorectified CORONA KH4B images and declassified topographical maps to study historical land‐use dynamics and to help planning archaeological survey in the monsoonal semi‐arid alluvial plains of North Gujarat, India. In spite of its generalized use in archaeological applications, CORONA photographs have rarely been used in Indian archaeological contexts. The methods discuss a cost‐effective and…
Pastoral land-use of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: Faunal analyses and biogenic isotopes at Bagasra
Shikarpur lithic assemblage: New questions regarding Rohri chert blade production
Recent excavations at Shikarpur, a fortified Harappan site situated near the Gulf of Kuchchh in Gujarat, Western India, brought to light a large collection of Rohri chert blades. Chert found in the Rohri hill near Sukkur in Sindh, central Pakistan is distinctive and easily identifiable. The wide distribution of standardized Rohri chert blades is often regarded as a testimony to the Harappan efficiency in long distance trade and craft production. …
Contributions of geoarchaeology and remote sensing to the study of Holocene hunter–gatherer and agro-pastoral groups in arid margins: The case of North Gujarat (Northwest India)
Anthropic activity markers and spatial variability: An ethnoarchaeological experiment in a domestic unit of Northern Gujarat (India)
Temperature, compression and fragmentation: An Experimental Analysis to Assess the Impact of Taphonomic Processes on Charcoal Preservation
Anthropic activity markers and spatial variability: An ethnoarchaeological experiment in a domestic unit of Northern Gujarat (India)
Temperature, compression and fragmentation: An Experimental Analysis to Assess the Impact of Taphonomic Processes on Charcoal Preservation
Millets and Herders: The Origins of Plant Cultivation in Semiarid North Gujarat (India)
Botanical evidence suggests that North Gujarat (India) was a primary center of plant domestication during the mid-Holocene. However, lack of systematic archaeobotanical research and significant taphonomic processes have so far hampered the possibility of substantiating this hypothesis. This paper explores the role of plants in the subsistence strategies of early-middle Holocene populations in this semiarid region and the processes leading to plan…
Pastoral land-use of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: Faunal analyses and biogenic isotopes at Bagasra
A microarchaeological approach for the study of pits
The study of the technology underlying pre-industrial storage structures has an interest from an anthropological and archaeological perspective, in terms of the evolution of key cultural and cognitive capabilities, often related to the transition to food production.Microarchaeological techniques offer a unique perspective on the study of pre-industrial storing technologies. In this work, examples are presented from two archaeological contexts in …
Pastoralism, climate change, and the transformation of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: Faunal analyses and biogenic isotopes
What is on the craftsmen's menu? Plant consumption at Datrana, a 5000-year-old lithic blade workshop in North Gujarat, India
Middle Palaeolithic point technologies in the Thar Desert, India
When Knowledge Follows Blood: Kin Groups and the Distribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Community of Seminomadic Pastoralists, Gujarat (India)
Understanding the patterns and processes underlying the heterogeneous distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) across communities of natural resource users is a growing research topic. However, social organization as a factor potentially shaping TEK intracultural distribution has received scant attention. Here, we analyze the role played by kinship groups-namely, patrilineal lineages and segments-in shaping bodies of TEK among a gro…
Did Modern Human Dispersal Take a Coastal Route into India? New Evidence from Palaeolithic Surveys of Kachchh, Gujarat
The Indian Ocean coastline is argued to have been a critical route of modern human dispersal from Africa, introducing Late Palaeolithic industries into South Asia, but a dearth of evidence has prevented a direct evaluation of this. Kachchh (Gujarat, India), located immediately east of the Indus Delta, is an important setting to appraise the Palaeolithic occupation of the western Indian coastline. Targeted survey of Late Pleistocene sediments ther…
An Early Presence of Modern Human or Convergent Evolution? A 247 ka Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage from Andhra Pradesh, India
Shikarpur lithic assemblage: New questions regarding Rohri chert blade production
Recent excavations at Shikarpur, a fortified Harappan site situated near the Gulf of Kuchchh in Gujarat, Western India, brought to light a large collection of Rohri chert blades. Chert found in the Rohri hill near Sukkur in Sindh, central Pakistan is distinctive and easily identifiable. The wide distribution of standardized Rohri chert blades is often regarded as a testimony to the Harappan efficiency in long distance trade and craft production. …
What is left behind: Advancing interpretation of pastoral land-use in Harappan Gujarat using herbivore dung to examine biosphere strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) variation
Corona Photographs in Monsoonal Semi‐arid Environments: Addressing Archaeological Surveys and Historic Landscape Dynamics over North Gujarat, India
Here we illustrate a ground map approach that uses orthorectified CORONA KH4B images and declassified topographical maps to study historical land‐use dynamics and to help planning archaeological survey in the monsoonal semi‐arid alluvial plains of North Gujarat, India. In spite of its generalized use in archaeological applications, CORONA photographs have rarely been used in Indian archaeological contexts. The methods discuss a cost‐effective and…
Coasting into India? - Assessing lithostratigraphic context of Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Saurashtra Peninsula
The coastal rim of the Indian subcontinent is believed to have played a crucial role in the dispersal of early Modern Humans from Africa into the Indian subcontinent during the Late Pleistocene. However, the paucity of substantial evidence along the Indian coastal margins has made it difficult to assess this hypothesis directly. The peninsular region of Saurashtra in Gujarat (India) is one of the key regions that possesses a vast coastline of ∼16…
Temperature, compression and fragmentation: An Experimental Analysis to Assess the Impact of Taphonomic Processes on Charcoal Preservation
Contributions of geoarchaeology and remote sensing to the study of Holocene hunter–gatherer and agro-pastoral groups in arid margins: The case of North Gujarat (Northwest India)
Anthropic activity markers and spatial variability: An ethnoarchaeological experiment in a domestic unit of Northern Gujarat (India)
Materializing Harappan identities: Unity and diversity in the borderlands of the Indus Civilization
A microarchaeological approach for the study of pits
The study of the technology underlying pre-industrial storage structures has an interest from an anthropological and archaeological perspective, in terms of the evolution of key cultural and cognitive capabilities, often related to the transition to food production.Microarchaeological techniques offer a unique perspective on the study of pre-industrial storing technologies. In this work, examples are presented from two archaeological contexts in …
Corona Photographs in Monsoonal Semi‐arid Environments: Addressing Archaeological Surveys and Historic Landscape Dynamics over North Gujarat, India
Here we illustrate a ground map approach that uses orthorectified CORONA KH4B images and declassified topographical maps to study historical land‐use dynamics and to help planning archaeological survey in the monsoonal semi‐arid alluvial plains of North Gujarat, India. In spite of its generalized use in archaeological applications, CORONA photographs have rarely been used in Indian archaeological contexts. The methods discuss a cost‐effective and…
Pastoral land-use of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: Faunal analyses and biogenic isotopes at Bagasra
Shikarpur lithic assemblage: New questions regarding Rohri chert blade production
Recent excavations at Shikarpur, a fortified Harappan site situated near the Gulf of Kuchchh in Gujarat, Western India, brought to light a large collection of Rohri chert blades. Chert found in the Rohri hill near Sukkur in Sindh, central Pakistan is distinctive and easily identifiable. The wide distribution of standardized Rohri chert blades is often regarded as a testimony to the Harappan efficiency in long distance trade and craft production. …
Middle Palaeolithic point technologies in the Thar Desert, India
When Knowledge Follows Blood: Kin Groups and the Distribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Community of Seminomadic Pastoralists, Gujarat (India)
Understanding the patterns and processes underlying the heterogeneous distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) across communities of natural resource users is a growing research topic. However, social organization as a factor potentially shaping TEK intracultural distribution has received scant attention. Here, we analyze the role played by kinship groups-namely, patrilineal lineages and segments-in shaping bodies of TEK among a gro…
Fossil otoliths, from the Gulf of Kutch, Western India, as a paleo-archive for the mid- to late-Holocene environment
Millets and Herders: The Origins of Plant Cultivation in Semiarid North Gujarat (India)
Botanical evidence suggests that North Gujarat (India) was a primary center of plant domestication during the mid-Holocene. However, lack of systematic archaeobotanical research and significant taphonomic processes have so far hampered the possibility of substantiating this hypothesis. This paper explores the role of plants in the subsistence strategies of early-middle Holocene populations in this semiarid region and the processes leading to plan…
Multi-proxy survey of open-air surface scatters in drylands: Archaeological and physico-chemical characterisation of fossilised dunes in North Gujarat (India)
Did Modern Human Dispersal Take a Coastal Route into India? New Evidence from Palaeolithic Surveys of Kachchh, Gujarat
The Indian Ocean coastline is argued to have been a critical route of modern human dispersal from Africa, introducing Late Palaeolithic industries into South Asia, but a dearth of evidence has prevented a direct evaluation of this. Kachchh (Gujarat, India), located immediately east of the Indus Delta, is an important setting to appraise the Palaeolithic occupation of the western Indian coastline. Targeted survey of Late Pleistocene sediments ther…
What is on the craftsmen's menu? Plant consumption at Datrana, a 5000-year-old lithic blade workshop in North Gujarat, India
Lithic Blade Implements and their Role in the Harappan Chalcolithic Cultural Development in Gujarat
What is left behind: Advancing interpretation of pastoral land-use in Harappan Gujarat using herbivore dung to examine biosphere strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) variation
Pastoralism, climate change, and the transformation of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: Faunal analyses and biogenic isotopes
An Early Presence of Modern Human or Convergent Evolution? A 247 ka Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage from Andhra Pradesh, India
Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Gundlakamma River basin, Andhra Pradesh, India and their role in evaluating Late Pleistocene behavioral change in South Asia
The eruption of Toba ca. 75 ka was the largest volcanic eruptive event during the Quaternary, and evidence for this eruption is widespread in terrestrial sediment sequences in South Asia as primary and reworked distal ash deposits. Youngest Toba Tuff horizons (YTT) have been widely employed as isochrons to understand and link regional sediment sequences and the evidence for environmental and cultural change in the archaeological records preserved…
Assessing Systematic Blade Production in the Indian Subcontinent with Special Reference to Eastern Gujarat
Blades as a component of lithic assemblages hold significant importance to understanding the more recent part of human evolution, particularly with regard to the emergence and adaptations of Homo sapiens. The systematic production of elongated stone blanks provides several advantages, including a longer cutting edge and high efficiency in raw material utility. However, the reasons behind the development of these technological forms and the chrono…
Coasting into India? - Assessing lithostratigraphic context of Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Saurashtra Peninsula
The coastal rim of the Indian subcontinent is believed to have played a crucial role in the dispersal of early Modern Humans from Africa into the Indian subcontinent during the Late Pleistocene. However, the paucity of substantial evidence along the Indian coastal margins has made it difficult to assess this hypothesis directly. The peninsular region of Saurashtra in Gujarat (India) is one of the key regions that possesses a vast coastline of ∼16…
Ichthyoarchaeological perspectives on roles of fish and red meat during Indus Civilization in Gujarat, India
The roles of animals during the Indus Civilization (circa 4000 BCE to 1300 BCE), which thrived in South Asia, have been extensively studied by zooarchaeologists. While significant progress has been made in understanding the domestication and hunting of mammals, information on the use of aquatic organisms such as fish, mollusks, and crustaceans has been relatively sparse. Excavations at Indus Civilization sites have uncovered substantial quantitie…
Middle Pleistocene occupations at Chhajoli, Rajasthan, India
Western India marks a critical biogeographic threshold, making it an important region to explore patterns of hominin occupation and adaptation in the Pleistocene. Focus on exploring evidence for hominin expansions across this threshold have drawn interest to the Late Pleistocene, whereas despite a broad Lower Palaeolithic record, earlier occupations are sparse, notably the Late Acheulean occupation at Singi Talav, as well as sparse presence at 16…
Why change what works? Technological resilience in Harappan pottery from Bagasra (c. 2450–1900 BCE), Gujarat
This pilot study investigates the resilience of pottery manufacturing at a fortified coastal Harappan settlement of Bagasra (Gujarat, India; c. 2450–1900 BCE). • LED microscopy and portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) was performed on 73 samples, of which 17 were further examined using SEM–EDS, FTIR, and XRD. • Four clay paste groups were identified (<SiO 2 -rich, balanced, <Al 2 O 2 -rich, and <CaO + MgO-rich), of which three remained stable throu…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 works) · Geography (21 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · Geology (14 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (13 works) · Paleontology (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (8 works) · Structural basin (7 works) · Biology (6 works)