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2026

  1. Srinivas, Akash & Diwakar S. 2026. (Colonial) Shadows of the Tomb Raider: The Portrayal of Archaeology and Exploration of South Asia. In Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Lara Croft: Studies of Culture, Fandom and Gender (Le Clue, N., Ed.). Leeds: Emerald Publishing, pp. 135-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83708-246-920261010
  2. Gadekar, Charusmita. 2026. Where Are the “Lithics” of Chalcolithic Indus Civilization? A Comprehensive Review of Published Data. Lithic Technology 51(2): 153-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2025.2523610

2025

  1. Phartiyal B, Balasubramanian K, Lahiri, Nayanjot, Tiwari A, Prasanna K, Trivedi A, Manoj MC, Kawsar M, Renny A, Thacker M, Das PK & Akash Srinivas. 2025. Climate-driven history of last 2600 years: Insights from Bandhavgarh National Park and Tiger Reserve, Central India. The Holocene 35(11): 1159-1179.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836251358726
  2. Kaur, Anubhav Preet, Skinner A & Patnaik R. Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dating of fossil mammals from the Pinjor Formation, Upper Siwaliks, India. Quaternary International 744: 109920. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109920
  3. Lahiri, Nayanjot. 2025. How an Environmentalist Saved Historic Badrinath: Chandi Prasad Bhatt and a Forgotten Temple Agitation. In Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Heritage (Williamson C & Crook P, Eds.). Springer, p. 109-120.
  4. Rajani MB & Datta, Sanjukta. 2025. A Shifting River, Shifting Narratives: The Sacred Landscape of Mahābodhi. South Asian Studies 41(2): 195-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2025.2593722
  5. Lahiri, Nayanjot. 2025. Choosing a Locality, Creating a Cave. LA Journal of Landscape Architecture 83(3): 22-27. http://www.lajournal.in/83-1.asp
  6. Denis S, Defranould E, Kačar S, Szilágyi K & Akash Srinivas (Eds.). 2025. Borderline Lithics: from spatial patterns to social processes during the European neolithisation. Journal of Lithic Studies vol. 12, No. 2. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. https://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/issue/view/613

2024

  1. Lahiri, Nayanjot, Phartiyal B & Balasubramanian K. 2024. Significance of radiocarbon Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) chronology of Bandhavgarh National Park and Tiger Reserve from an archaeological Perspective. Current Science 127(1): 98-101. https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v127/i1/98-101
  2. Garg, Kritika M, Dovih DP & Chattopadhyay B. 2024. Hybrid de novo genome assembly of the sexually dimorphic Lady Amherst’s pheasant. DNA Research 31: dsae001. https://doi.org/10.1093/dnares/dsae001
  3. Khan A, Sil M, Thekaekara T, Garg, Kritika M, Sinha I, Khurana R, Sukumar R & Ramakrishnan U. 2024. Divergence and serial colonization shape genetic variation and define conservation units in Asian elephants. Current Biology 34: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.08.062
  4. Lamba V, Herlekar I, Chatterjee D, Patel K, Garg, Kritika M & Chattopadhyay B. 2024. Signature of viral fossils: a comparative genomics approach to understand the diversity of endogenous retroviruses in bat. Virus Research 350: 199484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2024.199484
  5. Luo W, Tang Q, Chattopadhyay B, Garg, Kritika M, Rheindt FE, Wee AKS. 2024. The last stand: demographic and population genomic analysis reveals terminal endangerment in tropical timber species Vatica guangxiensis. Conservation Letters 17: e13036. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13036
  6. Garg, Kritika M, Gwee CY, Chattopadhyay B, Ng NS, Prawiradilaga DM, David G, Fuchs J, Manh HL, Martinez J, Olsson U, Tu VT, Chhin S, Alström, P, Lei F & Rheindt FE. 2024. When colors mislead: genomics and bioacoustics prompt re-classification of Asian flycatcher radiation (Aves: Niltavinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 193: 107999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107999
  7. Srinivas, Akash. 2024. Palaeolithic Investigations at the Neemtone Palaeolithic Complex, Central Narmada Basin, Madhya Pradesh. Man and Environment 49(1): 9-23.
  8. Srinivas, Akash. 2024. Palaeolithic investigations at Morpani, Central Narmada Basin, India. Archaeological Research in Asia 40: 100559. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352226724000606
  9. Srinivas, Akash & Lahiri, Nayanjot. 2024. Report: Peering into the Prehistoric Past of Bandhavgarh National Park, central India. Journal of Lithic Studies 11(1): 14 p. https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.8972
  10. Chakraborty, Kalyan S, Bestel S, Lucus M, Roberts P, Shirvalkar P, Rawat Y, Larsen T & Miller HM-L. 2024. To waste or not to waste: A multi-proxy analysis of human-waste interaction and rural waste management in Indus Era Gujarat. Journal of Anthropological and Archaeological Science 16: 141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02046-w
  11. Kutty S, Chakraborty MB & Chakraborty, Kalyan S. Patterns of Pastoralism: Temporal and regional variation with the Indus Valley Civilization. Journal of Quaternary Environment and Humans 2: 100022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100022
  12. Chakraborty, Kalyan S, Paskulin L, Shirvalkar P, Rawat Y, Miller HM-L, Slater G & Speller C. 2024. Assessing the applicability of protein residues in combination with lipid residues to reconstruct Indus foodways from Gujarat. Journal of Quaternary Environment and Humans 2: 100038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100038
  13. Sriram, Aneesh. 2024. Emerging from the Yamuna – studying an erstwhile oxbow lake in Sersa, Haryana, India. Current Science 126(2): 271-276. https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v126/i2/271-276

2023

  1. Lahiri, Nayanjot, Rajani MB, Sanyal D, Banerjee S & Tiwari S. 2023. Tracing Ancient Itinerants and Early Medieval Rulers in the Forests of Bandhavgarh, South Asian Studies 39(1):1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2022.2163067.
  2. Tan HZ, Jansen JJ, Allport GA, Garg, Kritika M, Chattopadhyay B, Irestedt M, Chilton G, Gwee CY & Rheindt FE. 2023. Megafaunal extinctions, not climate change, may explain Holocene genetic diversity declines in Numenius shorebirds. eLife 12: e85422. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85422 
  3. Garg, Kritika M, Lamba V & Chattopadhyay B. 2023. Genomic insights into the evolution and demographic history of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron cariant: population genomics approach. JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology 4: e40673. https://doi.org/10.2196/40673 
  4. Garg, Kritika M, Lamba V, Sanyal A, Dovih P & Chattopadhyay B. 2023. Next generation sequencing revolutionizes organismal biology research in bats. Journal of Molecular Evolution 91: 391–404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-023-10107-2 
  5. Ng EY, Li S, Zhang D, Garg, Kritika M, Song G, Martinez J, Hung LM, Tu VT, Fuchs J, Dong L & Olsson U. 2023. Genome‐wide SNPs confirm plumage polymorphism and hybridisation within a Cyornis flycatcher species complex. Zoologica Scripta 52: 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12568
  6. Srinivas, Akash. 2023. Absence does not mean absence: Modern-day land-use and the visibility of the archaeological record (Kibbanahalli Palaeolithic Complex, southern India). In Quaternary Geoarchaeology of India (Tiwari N, Singh V & Mehra SB, Eds.). London: Geological Society of London (Special Publications), SP515, pp. 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP515-2020-76
  7. Srinivas, Akash & Singh V. 2023. Revisiting the ‘Mahadevian’: A typo-technological reanalysis of the lithic assemblages of Mahadeo Piparia, central Narmada basin, Madhya Pradesh, India. Lithic Technology 49(4): 394-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2291228
  8. Lone, Abdul Rashid, Bashir I, Ahmad S, Ahmad Y & Ahmad R. 2023. Unearthing the Mysteries: An Archaeological Survey of Ichnad Village in Aishmuqam, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir. Indian Journal of Archaeology 8(3): 1012-1020. https://www.ijarch.org/issue/article/unearthing-the-mysteries-an-archaeological-survey-of-ichnad-village-in-aishmuqam-anantnag-jammu-and-kashmirjuly-2023abdul-rashid-lone-irfan-bashir-subzar-ahmad-yasir-ahmad-and-rasik-ahmad

2022

  1. Garg, Kritika M, Chattopadhyay B, Cros E, Tomassi S, Bennedick S, Edwards DP & Rheindt FE. 2022. Island biogeography revisited: Museomics reveals affinities of shelf island determined by bathymetry and paleo-rivers, not by distance to mainland. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39: msab340. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab340
  2. Sanyal A, Agarwal S, Ramakrishnan U, Garg, Kritika M & Chattopadhyay B. 2022. Using environmental sampling to enable zoonotic pandemic preparedness. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 102: 711–730. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41745-022-00322-z 
  3. Chattopadhyay B, Garg, Kritika M, Ray R, Mandenhall IH & Rheindt FE. 2022. Genetic Impoverishment in the Anthropocene: A Tale from Bats. In Urban Bats:Biology, Ecology, and Human Dimensions (Moretto L, Coleman JL, Davy CM, Fenton MB, Korine C & Patriquin KJ, Eds.). Cham: Springer, Fascinating Life Sciences, pp. 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13173-8_2 
  4. Garg, Kritika M, Chattopadhyay B, Doss DPS, Kumar AKV & Kandula S. 2022. Bat Societies across Habitat Types: Insights from a Commonly Occurring Fruit Bat Cynopterus sphinx. In Urban Bats:Biology, Ecology, and Human Dimensions (Moretto L, Coleman JL, Davy CM, Fenton MB, Korine C & Patriquin KJ, Eds.). Cham: Springer, Fascinating Life Sciences, pp. 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13173-8_5
  5. Lahiri, Nayanjot, Rajani MB, Sanyal D & Banerjee S. 2022. Exploring the forest and mapping its archaeology: Bandhavgarh National Park and Tiger Reserve, India. Current Science 123(6):772-780. http://dx.doi.org/10.18520/cs/v123/i6/772-780
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