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21. Vaishnav, H.K., *Jha, D.K. and Janardhana, B., (2024). Geoarchaeological perspective on Mesolithic and Neolithic settlement pattern and transition in the Ganga Plain, India. Quaternary Environments and Humans, p.100051.
20. Jha, G., Sinha, D.K., Jha, D.K. and Ajithprasad, P., (2024). Coasting into India?-Assessing lithostratigraphic context of Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Saurashtra Peninsula. Quaternary Environments and Humans, p.100034.
19. Ramírez-Pedraza, I., Tornero, C., Aouraghe, H., Rivals, F., Patalano, R., Haddoumi, H., Expósito, I., Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A., Mischke, S., van der Made, J., Piñero, P., Blain, H.-A., Roberts, P., Jha, D.K., Agustí, J., Sánchez-Bandera, C., Lemjidi, A., Benito-Calvo, A., Moreno-Ribas, E., Oujaa, A., Mhamdi, H., Souhir, M., Aissa, A.M., Chacón, M.G. and Sala-Ramos, R. (2024). Arid, mosaic environments during the Plio-Pleistocene transition and early hominin dispersals in northern Africa. Nature Communication 15, 8393.
18. ECHOES., Freire, V.Z., Ziegler, M.J., Caetano-Andrade, V., Iminjili, V., Lellau, R., Rudd, R., Stokes, F., Heberle Viegas, D., Maezumi, S.Y., Jha, G., Antonosyan, M., Jha, D.K., Winkelmann, R., Roberts, P., and Furquim, L. (2024). Addressing the Anthropocene from the Global South: Integrating Paleoecology, Archaeology and Traditional Knowledge for COP Engagement. Frontiers in Earth Science. Vol. 12.
17. Roberts, P., Caetano-Andrade, V.L., Fisher, M., Hamilton, R., Rudd, R., Stokes, F., Amano, N., Antonosyan, M., Dugmore, A., Findley, D.M., Zuccarelli Freire, V., Pereira Furquim, L., Fletcher, M.S., Hambrecht, G., Heddell-Stevens, P., Iminjili, V., Jha, D.K., Jha, G., Kinyanjui, R.N., Maezumi, S.Y., Morrison, K.D., Renn, J., Stevenson, J., Winkelmann, R., Ziegler, M., Scarborough, V.L., White, S., Degroot, D., Green, A.S. and Isendahl, C. (2024). Uncovering environmental legacies of past human societies on the Earth system at the global scale. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 49.
16. Sanyal, P., Adhya, S.P., Mandal, R., Roy, B., Dasgupta, B., Samantaray, S., Sen, R., Sarangi, V., Kumar, A., Jha, D.K., Ajay, A. (2024). Geologic History of Plants and Climate in India. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, V52.
15. Jha, D.K., Patalano, R., Ilgner, J., Achyuthan, H., Alsharekh, A.M., Armitage, S., Blinkhorn, J., Boivin, N., Breeze, P.S., Devra, R. and Drake, N. Groucutt, H.S., Guagnin, M., Roberts, P. and Petraglia, M. (2024). Preservation of plant‐wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies. Journal of Quaternary Science.
14. Jha, D. K., Vaishnav, H. K., & Roy, N. (2024). Late Quaternary human-environment relationship in the Ganga Plain, India. Quaternary International, 680, 1-16.
13. Jha, D.K., Hirave, P., Ghosh, S., Dasgupta, B., Sanyal, P. (2024). Does leaf wax isotopic characterisation of gymnosperms and angiosperms capture environmental gradients in Himalayas? Organic Geochemistry, 187, p.104720.
12. Kumar, A., Basu, S., Ajay, A., Jha, D.K., Sanyal, P. (2024). Quantitative delineation of water sources in the river Ganga using stable water isotopes. River Research and Applications, 40(2), 177–190.
11.Guagnin, M., Shipton, C., Stileman, F., Jibreen, F., AlSulaimi, M., Breeze, P.S., Stewart, M., Hatton, A., Drake, N., Jha, D.K., Al-Tamimi, F., Al-Shamry, M., Al-Shammari, M., Kay, A., Groucutt, H.S., Alsharekh, A.M., and Petraglia, M.D., (2023): Before the Holocene humid period: Life-sized camel engravings and early occupations on the southern edge of the Nefud Desert. Archaeological Research in Asia. 36, 100483.
10. Huber, B., Hammann, S., Loeben, C.E. Jha, D.K., et al. 2023. Biomolecular characterization of 3500-year-old ancient Egyptian mummification balms from the Valley of the Kings. Sci Rep 13, 12477.
9. Kulkarni, C., Jara, I.A., Chevalier, M., ......... Jha, D.K., et al., 2023. pSESYNTH project: Community mobilization for a multi-disciplinary paleo database of the Global South. Past Global Changes Magazine 31(1), 30-31.
8. Dhiman, H., Verma, V., Singh, L.R., Miglani, V., Jha, D.K., Sanyal, P., Tandon, S.K. and Prasad, G.V., 2023. New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy. PloS one, 18(1), p.e0278242.
7. Prieto A., Aldea-Moreira X., Arzarello M., Berruti GLF, Caracausi S., Daffara S., de la Peña P., Favreau J., García-Rojas M., Huysecom E., Janardhana B., Jha, D.K., et al. (2022). How to deal with an elephant in the room? Understanding “Non-flint” raw materials: characterization and technological organization. Revista ArkeoGazte, 12, pp. 73-98.
6. Jha, D.K., 2021. Reconstruction of Late Quaternary climate, vegetation, fire and sediment provenance of Indo-Gangetic floodplains and its implication for the Paleolithic to Neolithic phases of the Indian subcontinent (Doctoral dissertation, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata).
5. Jha, D.K., Samrat, R., Sanyal, P. 2021. The first evidence of controlled use of fire by prehistoric humans during the Middle Paleolithic phase from the Indian subcontinent. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 562, p.110151.
4. Singh, A., Muhammad, R.F., Taib, I., Jha, D.K. and Srivastava, A.K. 2021. Surface texture, mineralogy and stable isotope studies of nodular calcretes preserved in the YTT ash of Padang Terap river basin and Lenggong valley, Peninsular Malaysia: implications in its origin and paleoclimatic reconstruction. Rhizosphere, p.100380.
3. Jha, D.K., Sanyal, P. and Philippe, A. 2020. Multi-proxy evidence of Late Quaternary climate and vegetational history of north-central India: Implication for the Paleolithic to Neolithic phases. Quaternary Science Reviews, 229, p.106121.
2. Pillai, A.A.S. Anoop, A. Sankaran, M. Sanyal, P. Jha, D.K. Ratnam, J. 2017. Mid-late Holocene vegetation response to climatic drivers and biotic disturbances in the Banni grasslands of western India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 485, 869-878.l
1. Yadav, A. Mishra, P.K. Kumar, P. Jha, D.K. Kumar, V.V. Ambili, V. Anoop, A. 2017. Molecular distribution and carbon isotope of n-alkanes from Ashtamudi Estuary, South India: Assessment of organic matter sources and paleoclimatic implications. Marine Chemistry. 196, 62-70.
International Conference Abstract/Talk/Poster
25. Jha, D.K. (2024). STABLE ISOTOPES AND BIOMARKER ANALYSES: Understanding Human-Environment Interactions across time and space. Invited talk for Paleoschool by Paleoher Foundation, India.
24. Jha, D.K. (2024). Understanding Human-Environment Interactions across time and space. Invited talk for Humboldt Scholars at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Germany.
23. Jha, D.K., Blinkhorn, J., Schwab-Lavric, V., Freire, V.Z., Ilgner, J., Achyuthan, H., Boivin, N., Devra, R., Maezumi, S.Y., Gleixner, G. and Roberts, P. (2024). Plant-wax biomarkers and their isotopes reveal complex relationships between climate, vegetation and fire during collapse of Indus Valley Civilization (No. EGU24-20312). Copernicus Meetings.
22. Jha, D.K. and Jha, G. (2024). Rethinking the Environmental Context of Hominin Evolution in India. Invited talk at the Human Evolution Workshop at the ARCHE, Griffith University, Australia.
21. Jha, D.K., (2023). Late Quaternary human-environment relationship in India: perspective from plant lipids and multi-isotope (2H, 18O, 13C) analyses. Invited talk at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. Germany.
20. Jha, D.K., (2023). Late Quaternary human-environment relationship in India: Insights from plant biomarkers, compound-specific isotopes and macro-charcoal. Invited talk at the University of Liverpool, UK.
19. Jha, D.K., (2023). Plant wax biomarkers and their isotopes (d2H and d13C): Understanding past human-environment interactions. Invited talk at the University of Cologne, Germany.
18. Jha, D.K. (2023). Plant wax and PAH biomarkers: Tracing Anthropogenic Signature. Invited talk at the PANTHROPOCENE Wokshop, University of the Philippines.
17. Jha, D.K. and Roberts, P. (2023). Plant-wax biomarkers and their isotopes (d2H and d13C): Understanding past human-environment interactions. Invited talk at School of Archaeology, University of the Philippines.
16. Jha, D.K., Patalano, R., Roberts, P., and Petraglia, M. (2023). Plant-wax biomarkers in the Quaternary sediments of Deserts: Implications for human-environment reconstructions. XXI INQUA Congress 2023. Rome, Italy.
15. Jha, G., Jha, D.K., Patalano, R., Roberts, P., Krishnan, K., Boivin, N., and Petraglia, M. (2023). One Toba, Different Tales: Assessing variability in environmental impact of ~74ka Toba super eruption on South Asian mosaic. XXI INQUA Congress 2023. Rome, Italy.
14. Pedraza, I. R., Patalano, R., Aouraghe, H., Rivals, F., Tornero, C., Jha, D.K., Roberts, P., Haddoumi, H., Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A., Aissa, A. M., Chacón, G., and Sala-Ramos, R. (2023). Plant wax biomarker record from the Plio-Pleistocene site Guefaït-4.2 (Eastern Morocco). XXI INQUA Congress 2023. Rome, Italy.
13. Patalano, R. Miller, J. Carleton, W. C., Gayantha, K., Gleixner, G., Jha, D.K., Ilgner, J., Lucas, M., Scott, E., Roberts, P., Ndiema, E. Boivin, N. and Petraglia, M., (2023). Isotopic Evidence for Human Microhabitat Use Within and Across an Ecological Refugium, Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. XXI INQUA Congress 2023. Rome, Italy.
12. Jha, D.K. and Sanyal, P. (2021). Decoding the role of Late Quaternary climate and vegetation in the evolution of Indo-Gangetic plain, India. (Poster) at Goldschmidt2021, Lyon, France
11. Jha, D.K (2021). Reconstruction of Late Quaternary climate, vegetation and fire events from archaeological sites of Belan valley, north-central India (Spotlight talk) at ROCEEH Working Group Meeting, University of Tübingen, Germany.
10 Jha, D.K (2020). Role of Late Quaternary climate and vegetation composition in the evolution of prehistoric humans in India (Invited oral talk) at Paleopercs online seminar series.
9. Jha, D.K (2020). Reconstruction of Late Quaternary climate, vegetation and fire events from archaeological sites of Belan valley, north-central India (oral talk) at IISER Mohali.
8. Jha, D.K. Samrat, R. Sanyal, P. (2019). Reconstructing human-induced fire from archaeological sites of Belan valley, north-central India. INQUA 2019, Dublin, Ireland.
7. Jha, D.K. Samrat, R. Sanyal, P. (2019). Late-Pleistocene climate and vegetation of north-central India: Clues from sedimentology, molecular distribution of n-alkane and stable isotopes. INQUA 2019, Dublin, Ireland.
6. Jha, D.K. Samrat, R. Sanyal, P. (2019). Climate, vegetation and fire history of the last ~100 ka from archaeological sites of Belan valley, north-central India. JpGU 2019, Japan.
5. Samrat, R. Jha, D.K. Sanyal, P. (2019). Evidence of early human induced paleofire events in Belan valley, north-central India. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 2019. Vienna, Austria.
4. Jha, D.K. and Sanyal, P. (2018). Late Quaternary climate variability and civilisation history of Belan valley, India. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 2018. Vienna, Austria.
3. Jha, D.K. Ghosh, S. Hirave. P. Sanyal, P. (2017). Isotopic response of angiosperm and gymnosperm species along a climate gradient: a case study from NW Himalaya. Advances in Modern Earth System Sciences-2017. IISER Kolkata, India.
2. Kumar, P. Ankit, Y. Mishra, P.K. Jha, D.K. Anoop, A. (2017). Characterisation of organic matter source and sediment distribution in Ashtamudi Estuary, southern India. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 2017. Vienna, Austria.
1. Jha, D.K. and Sanyal, P. (2016). Paleohydrological and vegetational history of Quaternary Belan valley, north central India: Multi-proxy evidence from archaeological site. Annual General Meeting of The Geological Society of India 2016, IIT Kharagpur, India