Parth Randhir Chauhan (Indiana University)

Parth Randhir Chauhan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Stone Age Institute and CRAFT Research Center
Indiana University

mailing address:
1392 W. Dittemore Rd.
Gosport, IN 47433
 USA

phone: 812-876-0080 ext. 209
fax:   812-876-0086
email: pchauhan@indiana.edu
email: prchauhan@rediffmail.com 
url:   http://www.stoneageinstitute.org

Description of work:

Current research topics:

1. Prehistory of the Siwalik Hills (northern India)

2. Quaternary Investigations and Paleolithic Archaeology in the Narmada 
Basin (central India) in collaboration with Indian and American scientists

3. Implications of the Toba Super-eruption on Hominin Behavior in India 
(multiple sites) in collaboration with Indian, Australian, and American 
scientists

4. The Paleoecological Background for Hominin Behavior and Evolution 
during the Pleistocene in India - Inter-regional Correlations of Faunal, 
Floral, and Archaeological Data Sets in collaboration with Indian 
scientists.

5. Paleolithin Archaeology of Rajasthan: Hominin Adaptations to
Semi-Arid Environments

LONG TERM RESEARCH INTERESTS and PREVIOUS WORK:
Parth Chauhan received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Sheffield 
(U.K.) and his M.A. from Deccan College Post-graduate & Research Institute 
( India). He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Stone 
Age Institute. His area of specialization is the paleoanthropology of the 
Indian subcontinent. Additional interests include Old World prehistory, 
paleolithic archaeology, lithic typology and analyses of Mode 1 
technologies, Pleistocene paleoenvironments and hominin adaptive 
strategies, and geoarchaeology. He is also a co-editor for the Global 
Cultural Heritage Handbook Series for the World Archaeological Congress 
and co-director of the Narmada Basin Paleoanthropology Project. He is also 
carrying out smaller field projects in the Siwalik hills of northern India 
and is in the process of correlating and compiling all known Palaeolithic, 
paleontological, and paleoclimatic data of Pleistocene age from southern 
Asia.

KEYWORDS:  South Asia, Prehistory, Palaeolithic, Soanian, Acheulian, 
Siwaliks, sub-Himalayan ar chaeology, typo-technology, experimental 
archaeology, settlement pattern, GIS, GPS, remote sensing, flintknapping, 
reduction sequence.