Parth Randhir Chauhan

Region of Interest	South Asia
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Affiliation	Indiana University
Email	pchauhan@indiana.edu
Mailing Address	The Stone Age Institute and CRAFT Research Center Indiana University 1392 W. Dittemore Rd. Gosport, IN 47433 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 812-876-0080 ext. 209 fax: 812-876-0086
Websites	http://www.stoneageinstitute.org
Countries of Specialization	India
Education	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.
Research Interests	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
Publications	None on file.
Keywords	Palaeolithic ; Soanian ; Acheulian ; Siwaliks ; sub-Himalayan archaeology ; typo-technology ; ...