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Veteran archaeologist from Dharwad Ravindra Korisettar has been selected for the Rajyotsava Award.
Prof. Korisettar is simply a UGC Emeritus Fellow successful the Department of History and Archaeology successful Karnatak University of Dharwad.
His papers person been published successful journals similar Science (2007) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of America.
He has been a researcher for implicit 40 years, penning respective books published successful India and abroad.
Among his probe projects are Multidisciplinary Kashmir Palaeoclimate Project connected Kashmir for the Physical Research Laboratory successful Ahmedabad, a Computer Application successful Archaeology-Generated a Gazetteer of prehistoric sites successful the Indian subcontinent for the Ford Foundation and Prehistory and Geomorphology of the Middle Krishna Basin and Geoarchaeology of the Middle Krishna Basin.
Born successful 1951, helium studied archaeology and quaternary archaeological studies from Poona University and INQUA successful Beijing, China.
He is simply a Charles Wallace-AIIT Fellow of University of Cambridge and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar astatine the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
The 74-year-old student has established prehistory museums successful Ballari and Dharwad. He was a subordinate of committees for the enactment of schools successful Karnatak University and to hole a connection to the UGC to upgrade the assemblage arsenic a Central University and the State-level Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan committee.
He has besides been associated with assorted bodies similar Archaeological Survey of India, UGC, and nonrecreational bodies similar the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Canberra, Australia, and INQUA Commission connected Tephrochronology, U.K., and INQUA Commission connected Palaeoecology and Human Evolution.
The different grant winners from Mumbai Karnataka portion are H.M. Pujar, writer from Vijayapura, people artists Sannaningappa Mushennagol from Belagavi and Somanna Dhanagonda from Vijayapura, Pundalika Shastri, Budabudike subordinate from Belagavi, S.V. Hittalmani from Haveri successful the tract of agriculture, R.V. Nadagouda from Gadag successful Science, seasoned nonrecreational theatre property L.B. Sheikhmaster from Vijayapura, Rajshree Nagaraju (Halgekar), chairperson of Maratha Mandal Society successful Belagavi, Pavan Kumar Bhajantri from Bagalkot successful judiciary and sculptor Nagalingappa Gangur of Bagalkot.
