SHARMI CHAKRABORTYSharmi Chakraborty is Fellow, Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, Kolkata. Her research interest lies in the archaeology of the early historic period. She has conducted archaeological explorations as well as ethnographic survey of potteris in western, southern and northern parts of West Bengal. She has also directed two small excavations at Paharpur and Kusumjatra in Birbhum district of West Bengal. Her published work includes Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia (2008, co-edited with Gautam Sengupta) and Eloquent Earth: Early Terracottas in State Archaeological Museum, West Bengal (2007, co-edited with Gautam Sengupta and Sima Roy Chowdhury). Read More Read Less