Background
Professor Prishantha was born on 1964 at Minneriya, to a middle class business family as the youngest of 6 children. His father was a businessman, who travelled to Hingurakgoda, a city near Polonnaruwa for his business matters.
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Prishantha Gunawardena
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Prishantha first attended to Minneriya National College. After grade 5 scholarship exam, he was able to come Kandy and attended to Dharmaraja College, Kandy. But, after few years of education, he again went to Minneriya National College and finished his ordinary level and advanced level
In 1985, he entered University of Kelaniya and studied Archaeology, under Professor
Senaka Bandaranayake.
Career
He is also interested in Cultural Resource Management, Tourism, Urbanism, Architecture and Ethno-archaeology. At the school, and also in the university, Prishantha was a bright student with lot of talents. He played shot put, discus throwing and 100m running events at the university.
In 1988, Prishantha participated for excavations in Aluthnuwara, near Anuradhapura, with his teacher Professor.
Senaka Bandaranayake, as a crew member. The crew also consists with well known Archaeologist, Robin Cunningham, where he completing his masters degree.
The excavations underwent 3 years, and many new archaeological findings were foundation After finishing degree, he acted as an assistant lecturer of archaeology in University of Kelaniya.
He had to wait 8 years for completing his masters degree in 2008.
In 2003, Prishantha was appointed as head of the Archaeological Department of University of Kelaniya. In 2004, Prishantha started a 9 years long excavation research. The research was granted with many international universities, such as University of Kelaniya, Durham University, Bradford University, Lester University, University of Stirling, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara, with hundreds of archeologists, botanists, chemists, physicists, and sociologists.
The research was about "rural life existed in Anuradhapura kingdom".
In 2007, he established a separate subject for human sciences in the Department, as Anthropology. Also he converted archaeology for post-graduate degrees as well, with 88 students.
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Religion
Theravada Buddhism