Which archaeologist is associated with the excavation at Adamgarh that yielded…

Concept

At an archaeological site, the first identification of rock shelters or paintings can be distinct from a later scientific excavation of buried cultural deposits.

The date, excavator, material and excavation report must therefore be matched together before assigning a discovery.

Application

Archaeological accounts associate the trench excavation at Adamgarh with R. V. Joshi and M. D. Khare. The excavated sequence included a rich microlithic assemblage, and summaries of the site report roughly twenty-five thousand microliths.

Contrast

• Manoranjan Ghosh is associated with the earlier identification and study of the Adamgarh rock shelters and paintings in the 1920s.

• Alexander Cunningham’s principal archaeological work belongs to the nineteenth-century development of systematic survey in India.

• John Marshall directed major Archaeological Survey work in the early twentieth century, especially at Indus civilisation sites.

Cross-check

R. V. Joshi also authored the excavation report on the Stone Age cultures of Central India and Adamgarh, independently aligning his research with the site and material named in the question.

Therefore, the archaeologist asked for is R. V. Joshi.