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Tools, trails and time: Debating Acheulian group size at Attirampakkam, India Author links open overlay panelShantiPappuKumarAkhilesh https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248418301969
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Early Middle Palaeolithic culture in India around 385–172 ka reframes Out of Africa models Nature volume 554, pages 97–101 (01 February 2018) doi:10.1038/nature25444
Authors: Kumar Akhilesh, Shanti Pappu, Haresh M. Rajapara, Yanni Gunnell, Anil D. Shukla & Ashok K. Singhvi

Our Paper in Nature: Early Middle Palaeolithic culture in India around 385–172 ka reframes Out of Africa models
Authors: Kumar Akhilesh, Shanti Pappu, Haresh M. Rajapara, Yanni Gunnell, Anil D. Shukla & Ashok K. Singhvi

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A Late Palaeolithic assemblage at Kunjaram, south-east India
Authors: Malavika Chatterjee, Kumar Akhilesh, Shanti Pappu, Sudha Ravindranath and Uday Raj

Goren-Inbar, Naama, Yoel Melamed, Irit Zohar, Kumar Akhilesh and Shanti Pappu 2015. Beneath Still Waters - Multistage Aquatic Exploitation of Euryale ferox (Salisb.) during the Acheulian, by, in Internet Archaeology, 37. Special issue Human Exploitatio
Authors: Goren-Inbar, Naama, Yoel Melamed, Irit Zohar, Kumar Akhilesh and Shanti Pappu 2015.

Pappu, Shanti, Yanni Gunnell, Kumar Akhilesh, Régis Braucher, Maurice Taieb, François Demory, Nicolas Thouveny, 2011, Early Pleistocene Presence of Acheulian Hominins in South India, Science, March 25th, 331(6024):1596-1599
Authors: Pappu, Shanti, Yanni Gunnell, Kumar Akhilesh, Régis Braucher, Maurice Taieb, François Demory, Nicolas Thouveny,

Premathilake Rathnasiri, Kumar Akhilesh, Krishnamurthy Anupama, Shanti Pappu, S. Prasad, Yanni Gunnell, G. Orukaimani. Phytoliths as indicators of Quaternary vegetation at the Paleolithic site of Attirampakkam, India, Journal of Archaeological Science:
Authors: Premathilake Rathnasiri, Kumar Akhilesh, Krishnamurthy Anupama, Shanti Pappu, S. Prasad, Yanni Gunnell, G. Orukaimani.

Kumar Akhilesh and Shanti Pappu. 2015. Bits and pieces: Lithic waste products as indicators of Acheulean behaviour at Attirampakkam, India, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 4 (2015) 226–241.
Authors: Kumar Akhilesh and Shanti Pappu.