D.P. Agarwal & J.S. Kharakwal

In the course of his long academic career, Prof. D.P. Agrawal has worked with the Archaeological Survey of India, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bombay and Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahemdabad. His research contributors have been varied and multidisciplinary-mainly in the fields of palaeoenvironment, prehistoric archaeology, radiocarbon & TL dating and archaeometallurgy. His main areas of works have been: Kashmir, Central Himalayas and Rajasthan. Prof. Agarwal has specialized in the use of scientific techniques for archaeological research. He has also made fundamental theoretical contributions in the fields of language and evolution, flaking mechanics, archaeological theories and concept of time. He has published 17 books and about 250 papers. He was a member of the advisory board of World Archaeology, Le? Anthroplogie and has edited Man & Environment for a number of years. He retired as a senior professor and chairman of a large multidisciplinary group at Physical Research Laboratory. At present, he is Project Director of Traditional Knowledge Systems in Uttaranchal, sponsored by Infinity foundation. Dr. Jaswan S. Karakwal did his master?s in Ancient Indian History and Archaeology from Kumaun University and Ph. D from Deccan Collage, Pune. He teaches South Asian Archaeology at the Institute of Rajasthan Studies, Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Udaipur. He has carried out extensive archaeological, ethnographic and archaeometallurgical explorations in Kumaun and Rajasthan with Profs. D.P. Agrawal, V.N. Shinde. Currently he is working on archaeometallurgical sites in western India. He was a visiting JSPS fellow at International Research Center for Japanese Studies for one and the half years (2000-2002). He has published Central Himalayas: An Archaeological, Linguistic and Cultural Synthesis (1998) and South Asian Prehistory (2002) jointly with Prof. D.P. Agrawal.