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Sharada C. V.

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Sharada C. V.

Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences
(Jointly with Earth Sciences department)

  • BA: Mysore University, 2004
  • MA: Deccan College, Pune, 2006
  • MSc: Sikkim Manipal University, 2010
  • MSc: University of Ferrara, Italy and National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, 2013
  • Double PhD: Deccan College, Pune (2014); University of Ferrara, Italy and National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France (2018).

Email: sharada.c -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Office: 12/402E
VOIP: 2551


  • Selected Publications

    1. 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 Landscape and Gender: Traversing the Contested and Mediated ‘Spaces’ in India (S. Chatterjee and M. Dey Eds.), Primus Books. ISBN:978-93-5852-778-0.

    2. 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).

    3. 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, 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2024.2338338.

    4. 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: 111-126

    5. 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).

  • Work Experience

    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Feb 2019 to present)
    • Research Fellow, University of Ferrara, Italy (2015 - 2017)
    • Project Assistant, Deccan College, Pune (2006)

Research Interests

  • ● Archaeozoology and taphonomy
  • ● Bioarchaeology
  • ● Application of sciences in archaeology
  • ● Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
  • ● Human-environment interactions in the past and present