Assistant Professor




Publications

List of publications

Articles –Published

  • 2025, Aparna Dwivedi, Lomous Kumar, Snigdha Konar, Nagarjuna Pasupuleti, Sanjay Kumar Singh Gahlaud, Richa Rajpal, Mohammad Ajmal Shah, Mumtaz A. Yatoo, Sachin Kumar, Shiv Kumar Patel, Ningombam Somorjit Singh & Niraj Rai. Ancient mitogenomes from Neolithic, megalithic and medieval burials suggest complex genetic history of Kashmir valley, India, Scientific Reports 15, 35247 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-00568-4.
  • 2024, Malik Atiqullah, Yatoo Mumtaz A., Ahmed Rayees. The Geographies of apple cultivation: tracing the origins and dispersal of the wild apple Malus sieversii via the Silk Road to the Kashmir Valley, Geography, Taylor & Francis, 109:3, 137-144, London, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00167487.2024.2395176.
  • 2022, Spate Michael, Yatoo Mumtaz A., Shen Hui, Pokharia Anil K., Shah Mohammad Ajmal, Betts Alison. Cereal size, AMS and charcoal data from phase 1 of the Kashmir Prehistory Project, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Elsevier, 42(2022), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103369.
  • 2022, Spate Michael, Yatoo Mumtaz A., Penny Dan, Shah Mohammad Ajmal, Betts Alison. Palaeoenvironental proxies indicate long-term development of agro-pastoralist landscapes in Inner Asian mountains, Scientific reports, Nature, 12:554, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04546-4.
  • 2022, Spate Michael, Penny Dan, Yatoo Mumtaz A., Betts Alison. Re-examining climate-driven Malthusian collapse in Kashmir: New Palaeoenvironmental context for the archaeological record, Quaternary International, Elsevier, 623, 127-138,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.07.014
  • 2020, Yatoo Mumtaz A., Spate Michael, Betts Alison, Pokharia Anil K., Shah Mohamad Ajmal. New Evidence from the Kashmir Valley indicates the adoption of East and West Asian crops in the western Himalayas by 4400 years ago, Quaternary Science Advances, 2 (2020), Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100011.
  • 2019, Yatoo Mumtaz A. Kashmir and Swat during Neolithic times – A comparative analysis of material culture between the sites of two distinct regions, Ancient Asia, 10:3, pp. 1-9.
  • 2019, Betts Alison, Yatoo Mumtaz A., Spate Michael, Fraser James, Kaloo Zahoor, Rashid Younis, Pokharia Anil K., Zhang Guilin, The Northern Neolithic of the Western Himalayas: New Research in the Kashmir Valley, Archaeological Research in Asia, 2019 (3), Elsevier, ISSN – 2352-2267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2019.02.001.
  • 2018, Yatoo Mumtaz A., Vahia M.N, Iqbal N. Astronomical Interpretation of a Palaeolithic rock carving found at Sopore, Kashmir, Journal of Central Asian Studies, ISSN: 0975-086X. 
  • 2017, Spate Michael, Zhang G, Yatoo Mumtaz A., Betts Alison. New evidence for early 4th Millennium BP agriculture in the Western Himalayas: Qasim Bagh, Kashmir, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2017 (11), 568-577, Elsevier, ISSN: 2352-409X
  • 2016, Yatoo Mumtaz A. Chronological significance of stone bowls and saddle querns reported from the archaeological sites in north west Kashmir, Journal of Central Asian Studies, Vol. 23 (XXIII), 195-200. ISSN: 0975-086X.
  • 2015, Yatoo Mumtaz A., Iron Age Material Culture in South Asia – Analysis and Context of Recently Discovered Slag Sites in Northwest Kashmir (Baramulla District) in India, Ancient Asia, 6, Art.3, 1-8, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aa.12322. E-ISSN: 2042-5937.
  • 2014, Yatoo Mumtaz A. & Bandey Aijaz A. Relations of Neolithic Kashmir with South and Central Asia: Comparative Analysis of Material Culture from new sites in Kashmir, Journal of Central Asian Studies, Vol. 21 (XXI), 37-46. ISSN: 0975-086X.
  • 2013, Yatoo Mumtaz A. New Evidence for Upper Palaeolithic Material Culture from North West Kashmir,Pakistan Heritage, Volume V, pp. 1-10, Hazara University Mansehra Pakistan. ISSN: 2073-64IX.