Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar, (1941 – 6 May 2021), the eldest son of

Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar (12 December 1916 – 5 September 2000) was a campaigner, author and the first speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly. He was born in Goa in Portuguese India. He studied law and worked as an editor of the '' N ...

, was an Indian

Indologist Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is o ...

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

, and writer. His father, Pandurang Shirodkar, was a prominent freedom activist of

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

, and also served as the first speaker of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly under the

Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP) was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961. In the first elections held after the Annexation of Goa by India, it ascended to power in December 1963 and stayed in power t ...

. Shirodkar had devoted his career to research, and made valuable contributions in archeology. He was the founding editor of two research journals, ''Colloquium'' and ''Purābhileka-Purātatva''. In 1993, he discovered

rock art In archaeology, rock art is human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces. A high proportion of surviving historic and prehistoric rock art is found in caves or partly enclosed rock shelters; this type also ...

engravings on lateritic platforms and granite boulders from Usgalimal on the banks of west-flowing river

Kushavati Kushavati was a city in Kosala Kingdom as per epic Ramayana. The king of Kosala Lord Rama installed his son Lava at Sravasti on the northern part of the kingdom and Kusha at Kushavati in the south. It was located on the slopes of the Vindhya Rang ...

, which has shed light on the

prehistory Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

of Goa and the existence of humans in Goa during the

Paleolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...

and

Mesolithic The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymous ...

. He died on 6 May 2021 due to ill health.

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