Dr. Praveena Gullapalli

Education

PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania (2005)
BA, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona (1993)

Selected Publications

Abraham, Shinu Anna, Praveena Gullapalli, Teresa Raczek and Uzma Rizvi (eds.).  2013. Connections and Complexity: New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Gullapalli, Praveena. 2014. Early Metal in South India: Copper and Iron in Megalithic Contexts. In Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective, B. Roberts and C. Thornton, eds. New York, NY: Springer. 729-53.

Gullapalli, Praveena. 2013. Lamination as Production Technique –Patterns and Possibilities.  In Connections and Complexity: New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia, S. Abraham, P. Gullapalli, T. Raczek and U. Rizvi, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. 263-278.

Gullapalli, Praveena. 2008.  Heterogeneous Conditions: Archaeology, Identity and Colonial Histories.  In Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique, M. Liebmann and U. Rizvi, eds.  Archaeology and Society Series. New York: Altamira Press.  35-52.

Gullapalli, Praveena, Shinu Anna Abraham and K.P. Rao. 2020. The production landscapes of southern Andhra Pradesh: The Swarnamukhi River Valley survey 2013-14. In South Asian Archaeology and Art 2014: Papers presented at the Twenty-Second International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art held at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities/National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm, Sweden, 30th of June to 4th of July, 2014, E. Myrdal, ed. New Delhi: Dev Publishers & Distributors. 153-68.

Possehl, Gregory L. and Praveena Gullapalli.  1999.  Early Iron Age in South Asia.  In Archaeometallurgy of the Asian Old World, V. Pigott, ed.  University Museum Monograph 89, MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology Vol 16.  Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.  153-175.
 

Courses

ANTH 102 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 235 Bones and Stones: How Archaeologists Know
ANTH 312 Archaeology of Mesopotamia and South Asia
ANTH 334 Steamships and Cyberspace: Technology, Culture, Society
ANTH 345 Museums, Cultures, and Others

Research Interests

Ancient technologies/archaeometallurgy
Archaeology of South Asia
Craft production
Museums and the (re)presentation of the past