Journal Articles
2026
De Simone, Daniela. 2026. “Entangled Afterlives: Terracotta Figurines, Deathscapes, and More-Than-Human Worlds in the Nilgiri Mountains, South India.” Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 73: 492–525 (in press).
De Simone, Daniela. 2026. “Beyond Eurocentric Archaeologies: Integrating Indigenous Concepts of Space and Time into Archaeological Practice in the Nilgiri Mountains, South India.” Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific 65 (1): 46–82. DOI
Hawksworth, David L., Patricia E.J. Wiltshire, K. Anupama, M.B. Govinda Rajulu, N. Thirunavukkarasu, S. Prasad, Kevin J. Edwards, and T.S. Suryanarayanan. 2026. “Beyond the Dung Heap: The Reliability of Spores of the Ascomycete Fungal Genus Sporormiella (incl. Preussia) as a Proxy Indicator of Dung and Grazing Animals.” Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 353: 105657. DOI
2025
De Simone, Daniela, and Sunil Gupta. 2025. “South Asian Forest-Dwellers and the Making of World Histories.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 48 (2): 245–255. DOI
De Simone, Daniela, and Letizia Trinco. 2025. “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 48 (2): 343–367. DOI
2021
De Simone, Daniela. 2021. “Grave Goods from Megalithic Burials in the Upland Forests of the Nilgiri Mountains, South India: Analysis and Chronology.” Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific 60 (2): 306–344. DOI
2020
Trinco, Letizia. 2020. “Hero-Stones and the Nilgiris: A Fresh Look at the Dolmens-with-Carvings of the Nilgiri Hills of South India.” Rivista degli Studi Orientali 93 (1–2): 225–255. DOI
Edited Special Issues
De Simone, Daniela, and Sunil Gupta, eds. 2025. Of Exotic Plants, Wild Beasts and Precious Gems: South Asian Forest-Dwellers and the Making of World Civilisation (3rd Millennium BCE to 18th Century). Special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 48 (2). Special Issue
Preprints
Lazar, J., S. Prasad, R. Navya, D. De Simone, and K. Anupama. 2025. “Integrated Landscape Scale Vegetation Assessment Using Surface Soil and Bee Pollen Data in the Nilgiris and the Coromandel Coast, South India – Visualizing Pollen as a Remote Biological Sensor.” EcoEvoRxiv (preprint). DOI
Conference Proceedings
2026
De Simone, Daniela, K. Anupama, Davit Naskidashvili, Arjun Rao, S. Udayakumar, Sharada Srinivasan, and Letizia Trinco. 2026. “Archaeological Research in the Nilgiri Mountains: Report on the First Season (2024).” In South Asian Archaeology and Art 2024: Concise Papers from the 26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art, edited by Marion Frenger and Monika Zin, 70–72. New Delhi: Dev Publishers. ISBN 9789359444826.
Rao, Arjun, and Daniela De Simone. 2026. “Landscape Transformation in the Nilgiri Mountains: Relocating Megalithic Sites Excavated in the Colonial Period and Documenting New Ones.” In Recent Scientific Studies in Archaeology of Tamil Nadu Proceedings: A Three Day International Symposium, edited by K. Rajan, R. Sivanantham, V. P. Yatees Kumar, and K. Bakialakshmi, vol. 1, 1–20. Chennai: Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu.
Trinco, Letizia. 2026. “The New Life of Ancient Monuments: Cases of Recent Adaptation and Reuse of Megalithic Structures on the Nilgiri Mountains of Tamil Nadu.” In South Asian Archaeology and Art 2024: Concise Papers from the 26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art, edited by Marion Frenger and Monika Zin, 177–179. New Delhi: Dev Publishers. ISBN 9789359444826.
Udayakumar, S., and Daniela De Simone. 2026. “Exploring the Secondary Funeral Rites (Dry Funeral) of the Kota Tribal Community in the Nilgiris: Their Social Structure and Cultural Identity.” In Recent Scientific Studies in Archaeology of Tamil Nadu Proceedings: A Three Day International Symposium, edited by K. Rajan, R. Sivanantham, V. P. Yatees Kumar, and K. Bakialakshmi, vol. 1, 224–234. Chennai: Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu.
2025
Lazar, J., S. Prasad, and K. Anupama. 2025. “Light Microscopic Studies of Some Pollen Morphotypes of the Upper Montane Nilgiri Flora.” In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Research Conference, Advanced Institute for Wildlife Conservation (Research, Training & Education), Tamil Nadu Forest Department, Vandalur, Chennai, 214–229. ISBN 9788196318116.