NCS CODE: 2632.1100 | SS002
A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains. Archaeologists study artefacts to get a better understanding of historical societies. An archaeologist can work on anything, from recent centuries to civilisations from thousands of years ago. Pursuing a career in this field provides you with the potential to participate in historical discoveries.
Nayanjot Lahiri
Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at Ashoka University. She was educated at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and at the Department of History, University of Delhi. She taught at Hindu College and thereafter at the Department of History (University of Delhi) till 2015. She has served as Dean of Colleges at the University of Delhi from 2007 till 2010 and as Dean of International Relations from 2006 till 2007. She was previously on the faculty of the department of history at the University of Delhi. She is the winner of the 2013 Infosys Prize, in the humanities, for her work in archaeology and the 2016 awardee of the John F. Richards prize for her book Ashoka in Ancient India.
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