Prof Vijay Sathe

Vertebrate Palaeontologist and archaeozoologist is a former Professor in the Department of AIHC & Archaeology, Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Deemed University, Pune 411006. India. Currently, he is an Affiliate Researcher at Deccan College PGRI, Pune. He holds Master’s in AIHC and Archaeology and PhD in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Prof Sathe, over three decades has taught the students of MA, MPhil and PG Diploma in AIHC and Archaeology in Deccan College. He has mentored students for MA (22), PGDMA (4), and MPhil (3) in their researches for dissertations and PhD theses (8) in AIHC & Archaeology in Deccan College. Currently three PhD doctoral students are pursuing PhD under his guidance. Prof. Sathe has been engaged in Research for the past more than four decades in the field of Palaeontology, and its allied branches with special reference to prehistoric archaeology, covering about 2 million year’s history of humans and fauna in India. He has widely travelled in Indian countryside in search of the physical evidence of early man and animals and of ancient human cultures and prehistoric rock art of India. Prof. Sathe has made a significant contribution to the application of science of Dental and bone histology in Archaeology. It has helped in understanding ancient dietary patterns and evolutionary relationships between the extinct and living mammals of the Quaternary period in India, pathology and developmental history of vertebrates. He has studied animal remains from Harappan, Deccan Chalcolithic, Neolithic-Chalcolithic sites of Haryana, U.P., M.P., Bihar and West Bengal. He has examined and analysed the Animal myths, animals in Art History with special reference to physiognomy, myths and meaning of animals in ancient art and animals in art as an important piece of faunal evidence, besides bones in archaeozoological studies. Prof Sathe has published one monograph and has 80 Research papers in national and international journals of repute.