My Bio

Abdul Rashid Lone is teaching archaeology at the Department of History, University of Kashmir. He is a gold medalist from Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University for his Graduation (Honors) and Masters Degree in History. He has worked on early historic archaeology of Kashmir for his Ph.D thesis at the University of Delhi. 

His writings range over various aspects of the history and archaeology of ancient Kashmir. His areas of interest include the early historic archaeology of Kashmir Himalaya, Landscape archaeology, Site Catchment Analysis and Ceramic analysis. His research has been acknowledged by renowned historians including Prof. B. P. Sahu (University of Delhi) in Researching Transitions in Indian History (Routledge Publications) and recently by Prof. Upinder Singh (Ashoka University) in a revised edition of A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India (2024), only to mention a few.

He has presented his research at several national and international conferences and has more than twenty research publications to his credit. His publications include chapters in edited volumes and in reputed journals. His recent writings comprise a coauthored research paper on Semthan: A Hellenistic Post in Kashmir Himalaya, published in STUDIA HERCYNIA, Charles University, Prague (2021), and A Site Catchment Analysis at Semthan, Anantnag District, Jammu and Kashmir in Man and Environment (2019). He is associated with the editorial boards of various organisations and has also contributed a chapter on the History of Ancient Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh for Class VI published by the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education.  

Lone is presently working as Sr. Assistant Professor (University of Kashmir) and is a former Ashoka fellow at the CIAR, Ashoka University. Earlier he was awarded Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellowship-2018. He completed a project with Sahapedia on the Terracotta art of Kashmir.