Ankita Bhattacharya

Ankita is an archaeologist whose research explores coastal landscapes and the material manifestations of human–environment relationships in ecologically vulnerable zones. She focuses on the materialities and politics of salt production in South Asia, situating these practices within broader histories of resource extraction and transformations of coastal ecologies. She is also interested in questions of displacement, resistance, and violence in marginalized waterscapes, as well as how archaeology can serve as a practice of empowerment and agency for communities. 

Field of Interests:  Coastal Archaeology, Political Ecology, Colonial and Post-colonial archaeology, Salt Production in South Asia, Environmental Anthropology, Displacement, Resistance, and Violence, Community Archaeology and Public Engagement