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Dr. Bhattacharya, a veteran teacher in the Department of anthropology, University of Delhi, has spent several years in various Laboratories, Museums and Universities in Europe to compile a voluminous reference book on Palaeolithic Europe, which has been published in early 1977 from Holland. He has also taken keen interest in trying to undo the unpopularity of Indian prehistory in the west. He feels the main malady for this neglect is our total disregard of standard methods of research and reporting. In order to help this he has worked on a book of Palaeolithic typology. Which is shortly going to be published. He has studied by now tens of thousands of tools from classic sites in Europe and India and is totally utilizing this hard earned knowledge in trying to improve the teaching of Pre-historic Archaeology in India. His other publications are: 1) Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology, 1977; 2) Palaeolithic Europe, 1977.

Ms. Sudipa Saha (b. 1981) is a young promising scholar in the field of Anthropology and Archaeology. She had obtained her Masters Degree (2004) from the University of Calcutta in Anthropology; Post Graduate Diploma in Archaeology (2006) from Deccan College, Pune as well aas from the Institute of Archaeology (2009), Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. Ms. Saha served the Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi as a Research Associate engaged in documenting the antiquities especially the Prehistoric collection of the Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology which resulted into the present catalogue of Prehistoric tools. She was also associated with editing ‘Puratattva’ the annual journal of the Society as also contributing ‘Book Review’ in it. Ms. Saha had participated as an Indian delegate in the 19th Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congress held at Hanoi, Vietnam in 2009. She is presently working in Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi as a Jr. Research Fellow in Life Style Studies.