Ambily Chelaplackel Sreedharan is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology working with Prof. Kathleen D. Morrison, Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, and Curator in charge of the Asian Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She has beenworking as an Archaeologist in the Archaeological Survey of India, since 2013. She hails from Kerala and completed her M.A. in Archaeology with first rank from the Department of Archaeology, Kariavattom Campus, University of Kerala in 2008. Shesecured the University Grant Commission (India) -Junior Research Fellowship in 2008. Dr. Ambily completed her Ph.D. on the topic “Holocene Archaeology of PambaRiver Basin” under the supervision of Prof. Ajit Kumar in 2018 from the Department of Archaeology, University of Kerala. Her basic research interests are the Megalithic Culture of South India, Harappan Studies, the Early Historic Period of South India,Ceramics, Iconography, and Temple Architecture. She has actively participated in several explorations and excavations in various parts of India. She has attended a number of seminars and workshops and has several articles in national and international journals to her credit. She is the author of the book “Megalithic Culture of Kerala- A Study of Pamba River Basin” published by Sharada Publishing House, New Delhi. She was a participant in an intensive course on Petrography of Cultural Materials conducted by Dr. Marie-Claude Boileau (Director) at the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum, Philadelphia in 2022.
Selected Publications
Book
2021: Ambily, C.S. Megalithic Culture of Kerala-A study of Pamba River Basin. ISBN: 978-93-832221-36-3. Sharada Publishing House. New Delhi
Articles
1. 2022: Ambily,C.S. Funerary goods in the Iron Age/Megalithic Burials of Pamba River Basin ,South Kerala-A Discussion ,in Social Orbit ,Vol.6,2020.Farook College, Kozhikode.103-129.
2. 2022: Ambily, C.S. A brief discussion on the recently explored temple ruins from Pamba river basin, South Kerala, in Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary studies in Archaeology, Volume.8.1. University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. 730-749
3. 2021: Ambily, C.S., Ajit Kumar, Rajesh S.and G.S Abhayan. Analysis of Iron Artifacts from Megalithic context at Niramakulam, Pamba River Basin ,SouthKerala, in Peer Reviewed journal South Asian History, Culture and Archaeologies Publication.Vol.1,No.2,119-132
4. 2021: Ambily, C.S. An overview of Iron Age/Megaliths in Pamba River Basin ,South Kerala in Iron Age in India: Some more thoughts (Ed.), Department of Archaeology ,University of Kerala , Thiruvananthapuram .35-60
5. 2020: Ambily, C.S., Ajit Kumar and Nazarudeen S. Excavation of a Cist Burial at Niramakulam, District Pathanamthitta, Kerala, in the Archaeology of Burials: Examples from Indian Subcontinent (Ed.) Vol.II. New Bharatiya Book Corporation. Delhi.536-55.
6. 2019: Akinori Uesugi., Ambily C. S, Ajit Kumar, Abhayan G. S. and Rajesh S. V. Stone Beads from Megalithic Burial at Niramakulam, Kerala in Human and Heritage: An Archaeological Spectrum of Asiatic Countries (Felicitation to Professor Ajit Kumar) Vol-I. New Bharatiya Book Corporation. Delhi.1-22.
7. 2019: Akinori Uesugi., Ambily C. S, Ajit Kumar, Rajesh S.and G.S Abhayan. A study on Ceramic Sequence in the Megalithic Culture of Kerala in Man and Environment XLIV (1). Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies.21-32.
8. 2015: Ambily, C.S., Ajit Kumar and Vinod Pancharath. Iconography of the Recently Discovered Naga Sculptures from Pamba River Basin, Pathanamthitta District, South Kerala, in the Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary studies in Archaeology, Volume- 3.University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. 618-634.
1. 2023: PGDA (Post Graduate Diploma in Archaeology) from Pt.Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, Greater Noida, U.P.
2. 2018: PhD in Archaeology on the topic entitled ‘Holocene Archaeology of Pamba Basin’ under the guidance of Dr.Ajit Kumar (Rtrd.) from the Department of Archaeology, Kariavattom Campus, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.
3. 2008: MA in Archaeology from the Department of Archaeology, Kariavattom Campus, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
4. 2006: BA in History from Department of History, Government College, Chittur, University of Calicut, Palakkad, Kerala.
5. 2003: Plus Two (+2) in Humanities from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Palayad Nada, Vadakara, Calicut, Kerala.
6. 2001: 10th from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kulamavu, Idukki District, Kerala.