Cuddapah Basin Palaeoanthropology Field School

The Department of History and Archaeology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, offers a dynamic and interdisciplinary research environment with strengths in archaeology, history, and heritage studies. The Department actively promotes collaborative research across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, while the School fosters transdisciplinary scholarship through cutting-edge research, innovation, and international collaborations.

Shiv Nadar University (www.snu.edu.in) is a student-centric, multidisciplinary and research-focused University offering a wide range of academic programs at the Undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral levels. The University is in the quest to become a globally acclaimed center for learning and innovation in the fields of Engineering, Natural Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Management. The core of the University consists of a select, world-class faculty with doctoral and postdoctoral experiences from ranked universities all over the world.

Shiv Nadar University has recently been accorded as one of the ten private ‘Institutions of Eminence’ by the Government. In the NIRF (Government’s National Institutional Ranking Framework), the University has been the youngest institution in the ‘top 100’ Overall list, and its score has been rising steadily. In NIRF-2021, it ranked 56 in the ‘University’ category. Shiv Nadar University has been accredited with Grade ‘A’ by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council), valid for a period of five years from 26 November 2019. It is also among a select group of green-field institutions in the country which were awarded the prestigious Atal Incubation Center grant by the NITI Aayog, Government of India, in the very first round in 2017. The university received ‘University of the Year 2024 award’ at the 10th FICCI Higher Education Excellence Awards on 18th Oct 2024 (Category Emerging – under 15 years).