Assistant Professor (Archaeology)
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
Research Interests: Environmental archaeology, Archaeozoology, Sciences in Archaeology
Prof Sharda explores various dimensions of the past human-animal and human-environment dynamics through ethnography.
Social media handles
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Publications
Pineda, Antonio, Sharada Channarayapatna, Giuseppe Lembo, Carlo Peretto, Palmira Saladie and Ursula Thun Hohenstein. 2020. A taphonomic and zooarchaeological study of the early Middle Pleistocene 3 colluvio level from Isernia La Pineta (Molise, Italy). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102469.
Shankar, P.P. Joglekar, S. Channarayapatna and A. K. Singh. 2021. A typo-technological study of bone artifacts from Agiabir, India (2400-900 BCE.), in The intersection and integration of worked bone studies, zooarchaeology and archaeometry. Sidestone Press, Leiden.
Projects
Dholavira worked bone assemblage: a study of its typology, technology, experimental reproduction and digitization; Indian Council of Historical Research
Palaeoproteomic approach to identifying animal species use for the worked bone industry at the Bronze Age settlement of Dholavira; Association of Environmental Archaeology
Animal- based proteomic and isotopic studies to reconstruct their palaeodiet, provenance and husbandry practices at the Harappan site of Dholavira (Kutch District, Gujarat, India); IIT Gandhinagar
