Aljasil Chirakkal

Doctoral Research Fellow - Archaeology

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Academic interests

Archaeochemistry
Environmental geochemistry
Human-environment interaction
Isotope geochemistry
Organic biomarkers

I am a doctoral research fellow in paleoenvironmental biomarkers under the supervision of Dr. David Keith Wright at the University of Oslo. I am interested in the reconstruction of pre-historic human land use, settlements, and fire occurrences. I currently investigate the early hominin occupation and associated landscape changes in Tajikistan, Central Asia using organic biomarkers and stable isotopes.

Background

2022 - Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo.
2016 - 2021: Bachelors and Masters degree (BS-MS dual degree) major in Chemistry with a minor in Earth Sciences from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India, with the dissertation " Response of natural and anthropogenic impacts on aquatic systems: A case study from Garur Lake, Central Himalayas ."

Tags: Archaeochemistry, Environmental and Landscape Archaeology, Palaeoecology, Paleogeography

Muneer, Wani; Behera, Diptimayee; Chirakkal, Aljasil; Yadav, Ankit; Ambili, Anoop & K Mishra, Praveen [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Historical trends of heavy metal contamination and eutrophication in an aquatic system from Kashmir Himalayas, India. Environmental Challenges. ISSN 2667-0100. doi: 10.1016/j.envc.2023.100721.
Mehta, Bulbul; Yadav, Ankit; Chirakkal, Aljasil; Ambili, Anoop & Mishra, Praveen Kumar (2022). Understanding the Present and Past Climate-Human-Vegetation Dynamics in the Indian Himalaya. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (WIRESs). ISSN 1757-7780. doi: 10.1002/9781119787754.ch16.
Yadav, Ankit; Chirakkal, Aljasil; Kataria, Vishal; Ambili, Anoop & Mishra, Praveen Kumar (2022). From biomass to fossil fuels: A contemporaneous transition to anthropogenic driven environmental changes recorded in a Central Himalayan Lake. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances. ISSN 2772-4166. doi: 10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100186.

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Chirakkal, Aljasil; Wright, David K; Steindal, Calin Constantin; Jonathan Birk, Jago; Kurbanov, Redzhep & Buylaert, Jan-Pieter (2024). Climate, fire, and vegetation history from loess-palaeosol sequences in Southern Tajikistan, Central Asia during early Palaeolithic: Reconstruction using organic biomarkers and stable isotopes.
Wright, David K & Chirakkal, Aljasil (2022). Timing and ecology of the Human Occupation of Central Asia (THOCA) : A microarchaeological approach. Geological Society of America Bulletin. ISSN 0016-7606. 54(5). doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-381597.