Prehistory of Jharkhand ||

On Satellite Remote Sensing & Prehistory ||  Attirampakkam ||  Community Education ||

Refereed Journals

1. Pappu, Shanti, Kumar Akhilesh, Sudha Ravindranath, Uday Raj and Yanni Gunnell 2010, Research and Management of Palaeolithic resources in Tamil Nadu, South India, Antiquity Project Gallery, http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/pappu325./

2. Pappu, Shanti, Kumar Akhilesh, Sudha Ravindranath and Uday Raj 2010. Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing for Research and Heritage Management in Indian prehistory, Journal of Archaeological Science 37:2316–2331. (click here for a link to the website or send us an email for a pdf)

3. Arun K. Sreedhar, S. Balakrishnan, Shanti Pappu and Kumar Akhilesh 2008. Clay mineralogical studies of sediments and strontium isotope analyses on calcretes at the prehistoric site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Current Science, 94 (6), 2008: 779-786. (click here to download pdf)

4. Bonnie A.B. Blackwell,  Andrés Montoya, Joel I.B. Blickstein, Anne R. Skinner, Shanti Pappu, Yanni  Gunnell, Maurice Taieb, Akhilesh Kumar, Joyce Lundburg 2007.  ESR analyses for teeth from the open-air site at Attirampakkam, India: clues to complex U uptake and paleoenvironmental change, Radiation Measurements. (2007), doi: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.05.040. (click here to download pdf)

5. Gunnell, Y., Rajashekar, C., Pappu, S., Taieb, M. and Kumar, A. 2006. On the Depositional Environment of Lower Palaeolithic Horizons at the Prehistoric Site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Current Science, 2006, 91,114-118. (click here to download pdf)

6. Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh 2005. Prehistoric Archaeology and Community Education: earning from excavations at Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Humankind, 1:131-145. (click here to download pdf)

7. Pappu, Shanti, Yanni Gunnell, Maurice Taieb and Kumar Akhilesh 2004. Preliminary Report on Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu (1999-2004),  Man and Environment, Volume XXIX (2):1-17.(click here to download pdf)

8. Pappu, Shanti ,Yanni Gunnell, Maurice Taieb, Jean-Philippe Brugal, K. Anupama, Raman Sukumar and Kumar Akhilesh 2003. Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, South India, Antiquity, 77(297) 2003. (click here to download pdf)

Non-refereed but recognized and reputable journals and periodicals having ISBN/ISSN numbers:

1. Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh 2003. The Palaeolithic Archaeology of the  Kortallayar river basin,  Tamil Nadu Kalvettu (Publication of the State Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu) :16-23. (coming soon)

 Conference proceedings as full papers

1. Pappu, Shanti, Kumar Akhilesh, Sudha Ravindranath and Uday Raj 2009. A Forgotten Heritage: Impact Assessment Studies at Prehistoric Sites in Tamil Nadu, in Space, Time and Place, III International  Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, 17-21 August, 2009, Tiruchirappalli, (Maurizio Forte, Stefano Campana and Claudia Liuzza Eds.), Oxford:BAR International Series 2118, pp. 253-263.(click here to download pdf)

2. Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh 2007. Recent Research into the Palaeolithic Archaeology of Northern Tamil Nadu, in Human Origins, Genome and People of India, (A.R.Sankhyan and V.R.Rao Eds.).New Delhi:Allied Publishers, pp. 309-316. (coming soon)

3. Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh. 2006. Preliminary Observations on the Acheulian Assemblages from Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, in Axe Age. Acheulian Toolmaking from Quarry to Discard (Naama Goren-Inbar and Gonen Sharon Eds.). London: Equinox Publishing Ltd., pp. 155-180.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

Chapters contributed to edited knowledge based volumes published by international publishers:

1. Kumar Akhilesh. 2005. A Re-examination of the Upper Palaeolithic 'Damin Industries', Bansloi River Basin, Jharkhand, in Gurudakshina: Facets of Indian Archaeology. Essays presented to Prof. V.N. Misra (A.Kanungo ed.). Oxford: BAR International Series 1433, pp.150-157.

Pappu, Shanti, Kumar Akhilesh, Sudha Ravindranath, Uday Raj and Yanni Gunnell 2010, Research and Management of Palaeolithic resources in Tamil Nadu, South India, Antiquity Project Gallery, http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/pappu325./

Pappu, Shanti, Kumar Akhilesh, Sudha Ravindranath and Uday Raj 2010. Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing for Research and Heritage Management in Indian prehistory, Journal of Archaeological Science 37:2316–2331. (click here for a link to the website or send us an email for a pdf)

Pappu, Shanti, Kumar Akhilesh, Sudha Ravindranath and Uday Raj 2009. A Forgotten Heritage: Impact Assessment Studies at Prehistoric Sites in Tamil Nadu, in Space, Time and Place, III International  Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, 17-21 August, 2009, Tiruchirappalli, (Maurizio Forte, Stefano Campana and Claudia Liuzza Eds.), Oxford:BAR International Series 2118, pp. 253-263.(click here to download pdf)

Kumar Akhilesh.2008. The Upper Palaeolithic ‘Damin Industries’ of the Bansloi River Basin, Jharkhand, India, Man and Environment Vol.33.

Kumar Akhilesh. 2005. A Re-examination of the Upper Palaeolithic 'Damin Industries', Bansloi River Basin, Jharkhand, in Gurudakshina: Facets of Indian Archaeology. Essays presented to Prof. V.N. Misra (A.Kanungo ed.). Oxford: BAR International Series 1433, pp.150-157.

Arun K. Sreedhar, S. Balakrishnan, Shanti Pappu and Kumar Akhilesh 2008. Clay mineralogical studies of sediments and strontium isotope analyses on calcretes at the prehistoric site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Current Science, 94 (6), 2008: 779-786. (click here to download pdf)

Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh 2007. Recent Research into the Palaeolithic Archaeology of Northern Tamil Nadu, in Human Origins, Genome and People of India, (A.R.Sankhyan and V.R.Rao Eds.).New Delhi:Allied Publishers, pp. 309-316. (coming soon)

Bonnie A.B. Blackwell,  Andrés Montoya, Joel I.B. Blickstein, Anne R. Skinner, Shanti Pappu, Yanni  Gunnell, Maurice Taieb, Akhilesh Kumar, Joyce Lundburg 2007.  ESR analyses for teeth from the open-air site at Attirampakkam, India: clues to complex U uptake and paleoenvironmental change, Radiation Measurements. (2007), doi: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.05.040. (click here to download pdf)

Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh. 2006. Preliminary Observations on the Acheulian Assemblages from Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, in Axe Age. Acheulian Toolmaking from Quarry to Discard (Naama Goren-Inbar and Gonen Sharon Eds.). London: Equinox Publishing Ltd., pp. 155-180.

Gunnell, Y., Rajashekar, C., Pappu, S., Taieb, M. and Kumar, A. 2006. On the Depositional Environment of Lower Palaeolithic Horizons at the Prehistoric Site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Current Science, 2006, 91,114-118. (click here to download pdf)

Pappu, Shanti, Yanni Gunnell, Maurice Taieb and Kumar Akhilesh 2004. Preliminary Report on Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu (1999-2004),  Man and Environment, Volume XXIX (2):1-17.(click here to download pdf)

Pappu, Shanti ,Yanni Gunnell, Maurice Taieb, Jean-Philippe Brugal, K. Anupama, Raman Sukumar and Kumar Akhilesh 2003. Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, South India, Antiquity, 77(297) 2003. (click here to download pdf)

Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh 2003. The Palaeolithic Archaeology of the  Kortallayar river basin,  Tamil Nadu Kalvettu (Publication of the State Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu) :16-23. (coming soon)

 Kumar Akhilesh and Shanti Pappu. 2008. Perspectives on Archaeology from an Indian Village: Examples from Attirampakkam’; paper presented at the session Perspectives on the Past: Archaeology Beyond Academics’ ‘Communicating Archaeology (S.Pappu and M.Bezerra de Almeida organisers). World Archaeology Congress, WAC-6, Dublin, Ireland: 29^th June-4^th July, 2008.

Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh 2005. Prehistoric Archaeology and Community Education: earning from excavations at Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Humankind, 1:131-145. (click here to download pdf)