Prof. Ajithprasad. P

Professor (Retired)
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Gujarat 390002

Professor Ajithprasad Joined the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History as a Faculty member in 1990 and retired as Professor in June 2021. Taught prehistory, bioanthropology and South Asian Archaeology for over three decades. He is also a Guest Professor at the Archaeological Science Centre at IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. His research focuses on issues related to cultural evolution and human adaptations in the Quaternary. Over the years, He has worked on the Stone Age prehistory of Gujarat and was instrumental in discovering several Acheulian and other Palaeolithic sites in their primary context. He has worked on the Harappan archaeology from the 1980s onwards and has been a part of the M.S. University excavations of the Harappan sites in North Gujarat, Kachchh and Saurashtra. Many of these excavations have investigated issues of hunter-gatherer transition and the beginning of agro-pastoral life in the context of Early Harappan settlements in North Gujarat. Currently, he is involved in the study of Early Harappan and Harappan cultural development in Gujarat, along with Palaeolithic investigations in Western India, especially in Kachchh.