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Shanti Pappu                              Kumar Akhilesh

Shanti Pappu

 

Books

 Pappu, Shanti. 2001. A Re-examination of the Palaeolithic Archaeological  Record of Northern Tamil Nadu, South India. Oxford: BAR-International Series 1003.

 Pappu, Shanti. 2003. Stories in Stone: The Prehistory of Tamil Nadu, (IWA Endowment Lecture), Bulletin of the Government Museum, Chennai Madras Museum, New Series-General Section XVI-3. Chennai: Commissioner of Agriculture and Museums, Government Museum, Egmore.  

Pappu. Shanti 2007. The Lower Palaeolithic Culture of India (online text-book commissioned by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR, Government of India, for undergraduate students).submitted in 2006  

Pappu, Shanti, The Life and Work of Robert Bruce Foote, manuscript in preparation  

Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh (Series Editors)  in preparation.  Prehistoric Landscapes of Tamil Nadu, South India: Excavations at Attirampakkam and Explorations in Northern Tamil Nadu-Volume 1 to Volume 6 :manuscripts in preparation  

 

 

 Papers Published and In Press  (in chronological order)

 

This section is still under construction and more pdf's and links will soon be uploaded.

          

Pappu, Shanti, 2009, Comments on the paper entitled Quaternary Stratigraphy of the Kortallaiyar-Cooum Basins, by Hema Achyuthan and Nagalakshmi Thirunavakarasu, Journal of the Geological Society of India, vol. 73, pp. 683-696. You can access the original article published in Journal of the Geological Society of India, Vol. 74, October 2009, pp. 535-536. The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

 

Pappu, Shanti 2008. Prehistoric Antiquities and Personal Lives: The Untold Story of Robert Bruce Foote, Man and Environment, XXXIII(1): 30-50

 

Pappu, Shanti  Kumar Akhilesh) 2008. The Acheulian of the South-East Coast of India: Attirampakkam and Beyond,  in ‘Les Cultures A Bifaces Du Pleistocene Inferieur Et Moyen Dans Le Monde. Emergence Du Sens De L’Harmonie (H. De Lumley Ed.), in press

Pappu, Shanti. 2007. Geographic Overviews, Asia (South)/Asia, South: Palaeolithic Cultures of South India.  The Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Elsevier.

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
 

Bonnie A.B. Blackwell,  Andrés Montoya, Joel I.B. Blickstein, Anne R. Skinner, Shanti Pappu, Yanni  Gunnell, Maurice Taiebe, Akhilesh Kumar, Joyce Lundburg. 2007.  ESR analyses for teeth from the open-air site at Attirampakkam, India: clues to complexUuptake and paleoenvironmental change, Radiat. Meas. (2007), doi: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.05.040
 

Pappu, Shanti 2007.  Changing Trends in the Study of a Palaeolithic Site in India: A Century of Research at Attirampakkam, in ­M.D.Petraglia and B.Allchin (Eds.),The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia, Inter-disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics Series: Elsevier. Pp. 121-137. (please request for pdf or follow the link)

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.

 

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

 

Pappu, Shanti 2005. Archaeological Research and the Community: An example from Tamil Nadu, in Professor A. Sundara Felicitation Volume, in press (pdf. not available as yet).

 

Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh 2005. Prehistoric Archaeology and Community Education: learning from excavations at Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Humankind, 1:131-145. (pdf will be online soon)

 

Pappu, Shanti 2004. Down ancient trails: hunter-gatherers in Indian archaeology, in Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology. (Alan Barnard Ed.), New York:Berg, pp. 129-142.

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.(pdf will be online soon)

 

Pappu, Shanti. 2004. Robert Bruce Foote and the Kortallayar Basin in Indian Prehistory: Old Problems and New Approaches, in Proceedings of the R.B. Foote Memorial National Seminar (1995) on Indian Prehistory and Protohistory (Recent Advances), (A. Sundara Ed.), pp. 45-67  . Directoriate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Karnataka. (pdf will be online soon)

 

Pappu, Shanti  and  K. 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.  (pdf will be online soon)

 

Pappu, Shanti, Yanni Gunnell, Maurice Taieb, Jean-Philippe Brugal, Yannick    Touchard 2003. Ongoing Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, South India: Preliminary Findings  Current Anthropology, volume 44, number 4: 591-597.        

  

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, Vol 77 No 297 September 2003.

 

Pappu, Shanti  2002. Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, 2002, Avanam (pdf will be online soon)

Pappu, Shanti  2001. Middle Palaeolithic Stone Tool Technology in the Kortallayar Basin, South India, Antiquity 75(2001), No. 287:107-117

 

Pappu, Shanti 2001. The Environment in Prehistoric Research: A Case Study from the Kortallayar Basin, Tamil Nadu, in People and Environment in India: Essays in Environmental Anthropology (K.K. Misra and M.L.K. Murty Ed.); pp.24-38. New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House.(pdf will be online soon)

 

Pappu, Shanti 2001. Recent Research Into the Palaeolithic Archaeology of Tamil Nadu, South India, Praehistoria Vol.2:85-96  (pdf will be online soon)           

 

Pappu, Shanti  2000. Archaeology in Schools: An Indian Example, Antiquity 74(2000): 485-6

 

Pappu, Shanti, K.V. Raman and N.C. Ghosh. 1999. Archaeology for Children: A Note on the Sharma Children's Museum, Man and Environment  XXIV(2):91-92.(pdf will be online soon)           

 

Pappu, Shanti 1999. A Study of Natural Site Formation Processes in the Kortallayar Basin, Tamil Nadu, South India, Geoarchaeology: An International Journal. Vol.14, Number 2: 127-150.

Pappu, Shanti 1998. Discover India Gallery: The First Internet Site on Indian Archaeology, Archaeological Computing Newsletter, 50: 21 (pdf will be online soon)           

 

Pappu, Shanti and Hema Achyutan 1997. Observations on the Geomorphology and Archaeology of Erumaivettipalayam, Red Hills, Tamil Nadu, Man and Environment XXII(1):87-90.

 

Pappu, Shanti 1996. Reinvestigation of the Prehistoric Archaeological Record in the Kortallayar Basin, Tamil Nadu, Man and Environment, XXI (1):1-23.

Pappu, Shanti, A. Kshirsagar and Vijay Sathe 1994. Discovery of a Middle Holocene Sub-Fossil Bone from Tiruvallur Taluk, Chingleput District, Tamil Nadu, Current Science, 67(6):431-433.(pdf will be online soon)       

   

Pappu, Shanti 1994.Pleistocene Landforms and Artefact Contexts in the Kortallayar Basin, Tamil Nadu, Draft Papers: Neogene and Quaternary. Settlement and Technology. World Archaeology Congress-3. New Delhi.

Pappu, Shanti 1991-92. Robert Bruce Foote and the Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record,  Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Prof. S.M. Khatre Felicitation Volume, 51-52:647-654.(pdf will be online soon)           

 

Submitted two short notes on Birbhanpur Prehistoric Site and on the Madras Industry for publication in the Encyclopaedia of South Asian Archaeology, Ed. Gregory Possehl.

 

     

Interviews

 

Interview with Dr. Bridget Allchin and Dr. F.R. Allchin, conducted in September 1998, at Garhwal, Srinagar; published on the Discover India Gallery internet site: http://www.picatype.com/dig / dig. htm and in  Man and Environment  Vol. XXIII (2): 127-130.

 

Book Reviews

 

  1. Review of the book “Model for Land Use in Late Acheulian Tradition, Satna District, Madhya Pradesh” by Prakash Sinha, 1991, Allahabad: Prayag Pustak Sadan, in Eastern Anthropologist,1991: 424-427.

 

 

 

 

Kumar Akhilesh

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Kumar Akhilesh 2008. The Upper Palaeolithic ‘Damin Industries’ , Jharkhand, Man and Environment in press.  

Kumar Akhilesh 2006. Re-examination of the Upper Palaeolithic 'Damin Industries', Bansloi River Basin, Jharkhand. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pune:Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute.

Kumar Akhilesh 2005. A Reexamination 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) 2008. The Acheulian of the South-East Coast of India: Attirampakkam and Beyond,  in ‘Les Cultures A Bifaces Du Pleistocene Inferieur Et Moyen Dans Le Monde. Emergence Du Sens De L’Harmonie (H. De Lumley Ed.), in press

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
 

Bonnie A.B. Blackwell,  Andrés Montoya, Joel I.B. Blickstein, Anne R. Skinner, Shanti Pappu, Yanni  Gunnell, Maurice Taiebe, Akhilesh Kumar, Joyce Lundburg. 2007.  ESR analyses for teeth from the open-air site at Attirampakkam, India: clues to complexUuptake and paleoenvironmental change, Radiat. Meas. (2007), doi: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.05.040
 

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.

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

Pappu, Shanti and Kumar Akhilesh 2005. Prehistoric Archaeology and Community Education: learning from excavations at Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Humankind, 1:131-145. (pdf will be online soon)

 

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.(pdf will be online soon)

 

Pappu, Shanti  and  K. 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.  (pdf will be online soon)

 

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, Vol 77 No 297 September 2003.