Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar

Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar, (1941 – 6 May 2021), the eldest son of Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar, was an Indian Indologist, archaeologist, and writer. His father, Pandurang Shirodkar, was a prominent freedom activist of Goa, and also served as the first speaker of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly under the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party. 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 engravings on lateritic platforms and granite boulders from Usgalimal on the banks of west-flowing river Kushavati, which has shed light on the prehistory of Goa and the existence of humans in Goa during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic.

He died on 6 May 2021 due to ill health.

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