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Anubhav Preet Kaur

Fulbright-Kalam Postdoctoral Fellow
Anubhav Preet Kaur

GS 548

520-621-6000
anubhavkaur@arizona.edu
Pronouns:
She/Her/Hers

Documents

CV

I am a paleoecologist and archeozoologist whose research explores the long-term relationships between climate change, ecosystems, and hominin adaptation during the Quaternary. My work is particularly concerned with understanding how environmental variability structured mammalian communities and shaped the landscapes through which early Hominins dispersed across the Old World. By combining biogenic and sedimentary archives, I aim to move beyond single-proxy interpretations and develop more nuanced reconstructions of prehistoric ecosystems. A central goal of my work is to understand how ecological heterogeneity, rather than static habitat categories, influenced patterns of faunal resilience, dietary flexibility, and niche partitioning. Geographically, my research focuses on the Indian Subcontinent, particularly the Himalayan Foreland Basin, a region occupying a critical position within early hominin dispersal corridors between Africa and East Asia. I am interested in situating South Asian records within broader Afro-Eurasian palaeoecological frameworks, thereby addressing long-standing geographic gaps in ecological models of early human migration.

 

Research Interests

  • Palaeoanthropology

  • Palaeoecology

  • Taphonomy

  • Archaeozoology

Awards and Recognitions

  • December 2025: Leakey Foundation Research Grant ($25000) Co-PI: Dr. Advait Jukar (University of Florida), Dr. Jordan Wostbrock (Yale University), Dr. Rajeev Patnaik (Panjab University), Dr. Parth R. Chauhan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali)

  • May 2025: Norman Newell Early Career Research Grant ($5000)

  • August 2024: John C. Graff International Paleontology award (up to $4000)

  • March 2024: Prehistoric society travel grant (£300).

  • March 2024: Paleoanthropology society bursary to attend 2024 annual meeting ($250).

  • June 2023: Kalam travel award for attending a three-day international conference on decoding the human population histories of south Asia using Archaeology and genetics (all expenses covered).

  • February 2023: INQUA bursary for attending the INQUA Roma conference in July 2023 (€2150)

  • August 2022: Jackson school of geosciences travel award to attend Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting 2022 (Toronto, Canada) ($600)

  • March 2022: Deinje Kenyon fellowship award from the Society for American Archaeologists ($1000)

  • December 2021: Sylvester Bradley Award from the Palaeontological Association (£1500)

  • December 2021: The Leakey Foundation grant fund ($8352) Co-PI: Dr. Parth R. Chauhan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali), Dr. Rajeev Patnaik (Panjab University), Dr. Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History)

  • June 2021: Emslie Horniman Scholarship Fund from the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, U.K. (£5,296)

  • June 2021: Sepkoski Grant from the Paleontological Society, Washington D.C., U.S.A. ($1000)

  • March 2021: Wymer Bursary from the Lithic Studies Society (£250)