Conferences

Conference Organisation

2023: 13th Experimental Archaeology Conference (EAC13) (1 May, 2023 to 3 May, 2023) [https://exarc.net/meetings/eac13]

2023: LEM International School and Symposium 2023: Landuse-landcover mapping and modelling using pollen and isotopic data in different ecological regions of the monsoon (Amravati, INDIA: 13 March, 2023 to 26 March, 2023)

2022: 22nd Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (Chiang Mai, THAILAND: 6 November, 2022 to 12 November, 2022)

2022: A Sustainable Revolution for Open-Air Museums (online conference organised by EXARC associated with ICOM 2022, Prague) (22 August, 2022)

2022: 9th World Archaeological Congress (Prague, CZECHIA: 3 July, 2022 to 8 July, 2022)

2021: AOQR (Association of Quaternary Researchers) Student Colloquium 2021 (2 July, 2021 and 3 July, 2021)

2021: 12th Experimental Archaeology Conference (EAC12): World Tour (29 March, 2021 to 1 April, 2021) [https://exarc.net/meetings/eac12]

2021: 36th International Geological Congress (New Delhi, INDIA: 16 August, 2021 to 21 August, 2021) [POSTPONED, and then conducted virtually between 20 March, 2022 and 22 March, 2022]

2020: AOQR (Association of Quaternary Researchers) ECR Webinar Series: Emerging Areas of Research in Quaternary Science (7 September, 2020 to 29 October, 2020) [https://www.aoqr.org/web/webinar] 

2019: Engaging Science: Conversations across Disciplines (Mohali, INDIA: 7 November, 2019 to 9 November, 2019)

2018: 21st IPPA (Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association) Congress (Hue, VIETNAM: 23 September, 2018 to 28 September, 2018)

2018: 6th International Congress of SOSAA (Society of South Asian Archaeology) (Kolkata, INDIA: 16 March, 2018 to 18 March, 2018)

2017: Co-convener of Praxis (The  Humanities and Social Sciences Club of IISER Mohali) (Mohali, INDIA: January, 2017 to August, 2017)

2011: Student Coordinator of Antiquarians 2011 (Annual Fest of the Department of History, Fergusson College) (Pune, INDIA: 27 January, 2011 to 31 January, 2011)

2010-12: Founder President of Odyssey: The History Club (The History Club of the Department of History, Fergusson College) (Pune, INDIA: 2 July, 2010 to 1 May, 2012)

Paper Presentations

Srinivas, A., 2024b. Palaeolithic Investigations at Morpani, Central Narmada Basin, India at the 8th International Congress of Society of South Asian Archaeology (SOSAA), organised by the Society of South Asian Archaeology, Bihar Museum and the Directorate of Archaeology, Government of Bihar, at Patna, India (4 April, 2024 to 7 April, 2024).

Srinivas, A., 2024a. Toward a Renewed Characterization of the South Asian Lower Paleolithic: Insights from the technological and reduction sequence analysis of select lithic assemblages of the South Asian Paleolithic at the 16th Annual Workshop on South Asian Archaeology, hosted by Hartwik College, New York, USA (1 March, 2024 to 3 March, 2024).

Srinivas, A., 2023g. Reinvestigations into the prehistoric collections of Chirki-on-Pravara at the An Overview of Recent Trends in Prehistoric Research in Maharashtra conference at Nashik, India (23-25 November, 2023). [https://youtu.be/9RAR9MVsZC4?si=M85H3WfOtwRJyfK8]

Srinivas, A., 2023f. Slow-accumulating Palimpsests and the South Asian Palaeolithic: Insights into its Application for Reconstructing Lithic Technology and Hominin Behaviour from Select Open-Air Surface Pediment Sites and Site-Complexes of the South Asian Palaeolithic at the 11th International Symposium of the Asian Paleolithic Association at Suncheon, Republic of Korea (18 August, 2023 to 22 August, 2023).

Srinivas, A., 2023e. Sticks and Stones: Evaluating the Potential of the Lithic Archaeological Record as a Proxy for Quaternary Environmental Reconstruction at the LEM International Symposium 2023: Landuse-landcover mapping and modelling using pollen and isotopic data in different ecological regions of the monsoon, Amravati, India (13 March, 2023 to 26 March, 2023).

Srinivas, A., 2023d. Lithic technological variability in the South Asian Palaeolithic: Insights from a typo-technological and reduction sequence analysis of select Palaeolithic techno-complexes from India at the 15th Annual Workshop on South Asian Archaeology, hosted by Hartwik College, New York, USA (3 March, 2023 to 5 March, 2023).

Srinivas, A., 2023c. Palaeolithic Investigations at the Neemtone Palaeolithic Complex, Central Narmada Basin, Madhya Pradesh at the Joint Annual Conference of the Indian Archaeological Society, Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies and History and Culture Society 2023, Noida, India (17 February, 2023 to 19 February, 2023).

Joshi, A., Tanksale, M., Poojari, R., Chopra, S., Akash Srinivas, Patnaik, R., Sukumaran, P., Kaur, A.P., Deshpande, A., Padhan, T., Singh, V. and Chauhan, P.R. 2023. A New Assemblage of Proboscidean Fossils from Central India and Associated Stratigraphic and Taphonomic Observations at the Joint Annual Conference of the IAS, ISPQS and HCS 2023, Noida, India (17 February, 2023 to 19 February, 2023).

Srinivas, A., 2023b. Dating Open-air Surface Pediment Sites of the South Asian Palaeolithic: Investigating the potential of rock luminescence dating and its applications in the South Asian Palaeolithic at the 4th workshop on Luminescence Dating and Applications organised by the Association for Luminescence Dating (ALD) and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata, India (1 February, 2023 to 3 February, 2023).

Srinivas, A., 2023a. Lithic technological variability in the South Asian Palaeolithic: Insights from a typo-technological and reduction sequence analysis of select Palaeolithic techno-complexes from India at the Recent Discoveries in the Paleolithic of Eurasia: An International Symposium of the Asian Paleolithic Association celebrating the 80th birthday of RAS Academician Anatoly P. Derevianko, Novosibirsk, Russia (11 January, 2023 to 13 January, 2023). [https://archaeology.nsc.ru/events/apa/]

Srinivas, A., 2022e. ‘Open-Air Archaeology’: Lithic Technological Variability Amongst Open-Air Pediment Surface Sites of the South Asian Palaeolithic at the 22nd Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Chiang Mai, Thailand (6 November, 2022 to 12 November, 2022). [https://www.ippasecretariat.org/22nd-ippa-congress/sessions/s45/s45-2]

Srinivas, A., 2022d. Rock and Roll!!: Lithic Technological Variability Amongst Fluvially-Derived Techno-Complexes of the South Asian Palaeolithic at the 22nd Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Chiang Mai, Thailand (6 November, 2022 to 12 November, 2022). [https://www.ippasecretariat.org/22nd-ippa-congress/sessions/s46/s46-1]

Srinivas, A. 2022c. Slow-accumulating Palimpsests and the South Asian Paleolithic: Characterizing the nature and context of pediment surface sites in South Asia at the 14th Annual Workshop on South Asian Archaeology, hosted by Hartwik College, New York (4 March, 2022 to 6 March, 2022).

Srinivas, A. 2022b. Slow-accumulating Palimpsests: Assessing its potential for characterising pediment surface Palaeolithic sites of South Asia at the 1st Indian Quaternary Congress (IQC), conducted by the Association of Quaternary Researchers (AOQR), India (19 January, 2022 to 21 January, 2022). [https://www.aoqr.org/webinaar1.aspx] 

Srinivas, A. 2022a. Slow-accumulating Palimpsests and the South Asian Palaeolithic: Characterising the nature and context of pediment surface sites in South Asia at the Rewriting World Archaeology: South Asia Regional Workshop (13 January, 2022 and 14 January, 2022).

Srinivas, A. and Y. Pardiwalla, 2022. Reading between the lines: What makes the South Asian Middle Palaeolithic, ‘Middle Palaeolithic’? at the 9th World Archaeological Congress, Prague, Czechia (3 July, 2023 to 8 July, 2023).

Srinivas, A. 2021. Slow-accumulating Palimpsests and the South Asian Paleolithic: Characterizing the nature and context of pediment surface sites in South Asia at Anthropology in Transit 2021, Palimpsest in Practice: Reimagining time, narrative, movement, conducted by the Department of Anthropology, University of California - Irvine (9 April, 2021 to 11 April, 2021). [https://sites.uci.edu/anthropologyintransit/] 

Srinivas, A. 2020. A Century of Prehistory at Kibbanahalli: Paralleling trends in South Asian Prehistoric Studies at Archaeology from Home: Connecting Thoughts and Things, hosted by the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, Chennai, India (22 June, 2020 to 27 June 2020). [www.sharmaheritage.com/archaeology-from-homeconnecting-things-and-thoughts] 

Srinivas, A. 2019b. Absence does not mean absence: Modern day land-use and the visibility of the archaeological record (Kibbanahalli Palaeolithic Complex, southern India) at the 20th INQUA 2019 Congress, Dublin, Ireland (25 July, 2019 to 31 July, 2019).

Srinivas, A. 2019a. Variability of Mode 2 techno-complexes in the South Asian Lower Palaeolithic: Three case studies of technological and reduction sequence analyses at the Prehistory and Archaeology of the World Symposium, organised by the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil (8 January, 2019 to 10 January, 2019).

Srinivas, A. 2018c. Modernity, the Monopoly of Homo sapiens? Questioning Current Paradigms with Reference to Evidences from South and Southeast Asia at the 21st Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Hue, Vietnam (23 September, 2018 to 28 September, 2018). 

Srinivas, A. 2018b. Variability of Mode 2 Technology: A Reinvestigation of Mahadeo Piparia and its Implications for the Movius Line and ‘Acheulean-Like’ Technologies of South, East and Southeast Asia at the 21st Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Hue, Vietnam (23 September, 2018 to 28 September, 2018).

Srinivas, A. 2018a. Variability within Mode 2 technology: Expanding Criteria for Technological Classification of the Lower Palaeolithic of Western Europe and South Asia, presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain (5 September, 2018 to 8 September, 2018). [www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RACr9bBnJQ&ab] 

Srinivas, A., V. Singh and P.R. Chauhan. 2017. Revisiting the Mahadevian: A Typo-technological Reanalysis of Lithic Assemblages from Mahadeo Piparia, central Narmada Basin, Madhya Pradesh, presented at the Joint Annual Conference of the IAS, ISPQS and IHCS 2017 and International Seminar on Recent Field Researches and Scientific Studies in Indian Archaeology, at Varanasi, India (4 November, 2017 to 6 November, 2017).

Srinivas, A. 2016. Role of Social Matrices in the Preservation of the Archaeological Record: A Case Study of the Differential Preservation of the Archaeological Record in the Kibbanahalli Palaeolithic Complex, Southern Karnataka, India, presented at the Integrated Cultural Landscape Management for Sustainable Development, Apheleia 2016 Intensive Programme organised by the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT) at Mação, Portugal (9 March, 2016 to 18 March, 2016).

Gudka, D., Akash Srinivas and V. Mushrif-Tripathy. 2013. Habitual Stress Markers: Observations from three skeletal assemblages from India, presented at the Joint Annual Conference of the IAS, ISPQS and IHCS 2013 and International Seminar on Recent Advances in Archaeological Science and Indian Archaeology, at Varanasi, India (14 December, 2013 to 16 December, 2013).

Poster Presentations

Joshi, A., Tanksale, M., Poojari, R., Chopra, S., Akash Srinivas, Patnaik, R., Sukumaran, P, Preet Kaur, A., Deshpande, A., Padhan, T., Singh, V. and Chauhan, P.R. 2023. A New Assemblage of Proboscidean Fossils from Central India and Associated Stratigraphic and Taphonomic Observations at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (18 October, 2023 to 21 October, 2023).

Joshi, A., Tanksale, M., Sumedha, Akash Srinivas, Patnaik, R., Sukumaran, P, Preet Kaur, A., Deshpande, A., Padhan, T., Singh, V., Chauhan, P.R. and Poojari, R. 2023. A New Assemblage of Proboscidean Fossils from Central India and Associated Stratigraphic and Taphonomic Observations at the 21st INQUA 2023 Congress, Rome, Italy (14 July, 2023 to 20 July, 2023). [https://inquaroma2023.exordo.com/programme/presentation/2048]

Srinivas, A. 2022. Slow-accumulating Palimpsests and the South Asian Palaeolithic: Characterising the nature and context of pediment surface sites in South Asia at the 2nd International Workshop on the Scientific Applications in South Asian Archaeology: An Integrative Approach for research on the reconstruction of the past, at the International Centre Goa, Dona Paula, India (14 June, 2022 and 16 June, 2022).

Srinivas, A. 2018. Preliminary Observations from the Palaeolithic Investigations at Kibbanahalli, Southern Karnataka, presented at the 6th International Congress of the Society of South Asian Archaeology, at the Indian Museum, Kolkata, India (16 March, 2018 to 18 March, 2018).