Sharada Channarayapatna

About

Animals, travelling, photography and research are my raison d'être (reasons to be) and I have found their harmonious convergence in my chosen profession-archaeology with a special inclination towards archaeozoology. The demands of this profession fulfil the dreams of my life! Multi-lingual, easily adaptable to different geographies and cultures, I thrive on a good research challenge and in exploring different methodologies and approaches to interpret findings, either independently or with a group/team and bring them to the people, experts and laymen alike, via publications, workshops and talks. Equipped with required institutional education and qualifications, I get to wear many hats in my job...that of a laboratory instructor, a field technician, a faculty member, an ethnographer etc…which makes me want to be an archaeologist and to do archaeology even more than the previous day!

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Assistant Professor
  2019 - 2026
• University of Ferrara PhD
  2015 - 2018
• Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Project Assistant
  2006 - 2006

Education

• University of Ferrara MSc Quaternary and Prehistory
  2011 - 2013
• Sikkim Manipal University MSc
  2008 - 2010
• Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute PhD
  2007 - 2014
• Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute MA
  2004 - 2006
• JSS University BA
  2001 - 2004

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (24)

• Taphonomic analysis of Terebralia palustris assemblage from the prehistoric midden site of Bambhanka near Dholavira, District Kachchh, Gujarat (India)
  Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105554
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• Bridging Indigenous and Western-Science Knowledges in the Anthropocene
  Ecokritike 2026 DOI: 10.33823/eke.2025.3.1.431
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• Biostratigraphie et paléoécologie des grands mammifères du Pléistocène moyen et supérieur en Ligurie (Italie) et dans les Alpes-Maritimes (France)
  L'Anthropologie 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103412
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• Multifaceted Livelihood Relations of Local Communities with the Indian Sundarbans Mangroves
  Human Ecology 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-025-00596-8
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• 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 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100050
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• Exploring the culinary landscape and gender roles inside the 'Rasodums': A study of Dholavira village, Gujarat
  Landscape and gender: Traversing the contested and mediated 'spaces' in India 2024
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• Food Memories and Diaspora of Culinary Traditions: Echoes from Voices of Displacement in the Rural Scape of Dholavira, India
  Ethnoarchaeology 2024 DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2024.2338338
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• Animals in Archaeology, Integrating Landscapes, Environment and Humans in South Asia - a festschrift for Prof P.P. Joglekar
  University of Kerala, Trivandrum 2023
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• Marginalization of Sundarbans’ Marichjhapi: Ecocriticism Approaches in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Deep Halder’s Blood Island
  Literature 2022 DOI: 10.3390/literature2030014
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• 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 2022
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