About The Speakers:
Dr Jeewan Singh Kharakwal heads the Department of Archaeology and is also the Director of Sahitya Sansthan, JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Udaipur, Rajasthan. Dr Kharakwal received his Ph. D from Deccan College, Pune, on the Archaeology of Central Himalayan Region. He has participated in a number of archaeological excavations ranging from Stone Age to Iron Age in Karnataka, Maharashtra, M.P. , Gujarat and Uttarakhand. He spearheaded a multidisciplinary Indo-Japanese archaeological research project at Kanmer, a Harappan site in Kachchh, Gujarat 2005 to 2012. He has co-authored three books besides publishing 60 papers in various journals published from Asia and Europe.
Dr. D.P. Sharma is an Archaeologist, Museologist and Art Historian. He did his M.A. in Ancient Indian History Culture & Archaeology from Allahabad University and D.Phil from University of Allahabad. He was awarded a commonwealth scholarship and qualified for M.A. Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology University of London. He did excavations at Sussex (U.K.) and Pincenvent (France) under Dr. Mark Newcomer and Prof. Gourhan. During 2003-04. He did excavation at Sterkfontein cave in South Africa, under R.J. Clark, where 3.3 M. old Australopithecus skeleton was discovered. From 1985 to 2005 was head of Harappan and prehistoric collection of National Museum, New Delhi. In 2005 became Associate Professor & H.O.D. Museology in National Museum Institute (Deemed University). Dr. Sharma has published 281 Papers/Lectures and 101 Books. He was working As Director in Bharat Kala Bhavan Museum of Banaras Hindu University and as visiting Professor of Archaeology in other Universities in India.