Dr. Ruman Banerjee
About
Research Area
I obtained two post-graduate degrees, a Ph.D. and three years of post-doctoral research experience on various disciplines and sub-disciplines of History, Archaeology, Anthropology & Earth Sciences. I received an honours graduate degree in Anthropology from Calcutta University with Zoology, Botany and Environmental Sciences. I did my Ph.D. work on the applications of remote sensing and GIS (RS-GIS), geoarchaeology, new rock art discoveries in Central Indian provinces, chemical geology and Uranium series Geochemistry (U/Th) in archaeology and anthropology from Bristol University, UK. My post-doctoral work at IIT Gandhinagar was about Harappan cognitive and applied anthropological trends and how the Indus Valley Civilization operated over a vast geoarchaeological landscape through the analysis of lithic materials from the Harappan Megacity of Dholavira. Currently I work on Digital and Computational History Methods, Digital Imaging, Data Management in History, Museology, Field Archaeology, Historical and Archaeological Materials Analysis, Cognitive Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management and Computational Archaeology.
Notable & Recent Publications
R Banerjee, AWG Pike, DA Richards, K Robson-Brown, A Pratap; Appendix 3: Scientific Dating of Rock Art: Problems, Prospects and Interpretation; Prehistoric Foundations of Bharata 2; The Mythic Society, Bengaluru; 2021, ISBN No. 9788195498000
R Banerjee, S Chakraverty; Cognitive Aspects of Rock Art from Mahadeo Hills, Pachmarhi, Central India; Theoretical and Cognitive Aspects of Rock Art; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi - 110001; 2022, ISBN No. 9788195172306
R Banerjee; Animals in Indian Rock Art: An Appraisal of Relative Chronology and Deductive Methodology; Theoretical and Cognitive Aspects of Rock Art; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi - 110001; 2022; ISBN No. 9788195172306
"Ruman Banerjee; Book review: S. K. Bose and S. Bose (Eds), Chalo Delhi: Writings and Speeches 1943–1945, Netaji Collected Works, Sociological Bulletin, Volume 12, 2024"
R Banerjee, S Chakraverty, DW Robinson; The Women of Central Indian Rock Art : Discovery, Documentation and Interpretation; EXPRESSION, 26, 44-53, 2019