Publications

Edited Volumes

2025

DE SIMONE, Daniela, and Sunil GUPTA (eds.). Of Exotic Plants, Wild Beasts and Precious Gems: South Asian Forest-Dwellers and the Making of World Civilisation (3rd Millennium BCE to 18th Century). SOUTH ASIA-JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, 48, no. 2 (2025).

Journal articles

2025

DE SIMONE, Daniela, and Letizia TRINCO. “Between Forests and Oceans : The Role of Jain Merchants from Kerala in the Indian Ocean Exchange Network, Ninth–Fourteenth Centuries.” SOUTH ASIA-JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, edited by Daniela De Simone and Sunil Gupta, vol. 48, no. 2, 2025, pp. 343–67, doi:10.1080/00856401.2025.2491271

2021

DE SIMONE, Daniela. “Grave goods from megalithic burials in the upland forests of the Nilgiri Mountains, South India: Analysis and chronology.” Asian Perspectives 60, no. 2 (2021): 306-344.

2020

TRINCO, Letizia. “Hero-stones and the Nilgiris: a fresh look at the dolmens-with-carvings of the Nilgiri Hills of South India.” Rivista degli Studi Orientali XCIII, no. 1/2 (2020): 225-255.

Conference Proceedings

2026

RAO, Arjun, and Daniela DE SIMONE. “Landscape Transformation in the Nilgiri Mountains: Relocating Megalithic Sites Excavated in the Colonial Period and Documenting New Ones.” Recent Scientific Studies in Archaeology of Tamil Nadu Proceedings, A Three Day International Symposium, January 22nd-24th 2026, edited by K. Rajan et al., vol. 1, Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu, 2026, pp. 1–20.

UDAYAKUMAR, S., and Daniela DE SIMONE. “Exploring the Secondary Funeral Rites (Dry Funeral) of the Kota Tribal Community in the Nilgiris: Their Social Structure and Cultural Identity.” Recent Scientific Studies in Archaeology of Tamil Nadu Proceedings, A Three Day International Symposium, January 22nd-24th 2026, edited by K. Rajan et al., vol. 1, Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu, 2026, pp. 224–34.