Ravi Korisettar is an archaeologist and Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, and Honorary Director of the Robert Bruce Foote Sanganakallu Archaeological Museum, Ballari. He was formerly a professor of archaeology at Karnatak University, Dharwad. He is the author of Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology of India, Early Human Behaviour in Global Context, Indian Archaeology in Retrospect (four volumes), and Beyond Stones and More Stones (four volumes).