Rakshasagall in kumathi (megalithic site )

Kumathi village. Kudligi talk karnataka. This site is megalithic.village north side kumathi to valase road near thipperudraswami his fields. megalithic period used different types of artifacts used. Because area depending the raw metirial. Kumathi village totally different types of artifacts used. I think left said femaleright side statue male . Also one statue of badi broken anthor one totally broken.kumathi village megalithic tomb & Anthropomorphic statues of kumathi.      The term megalithic is derived from Greek 'megas' which means great and 'lithos ' meaning stone. So megalithics refer to the monuments, built of large stones, in ather words,  the megalithics  usually refer to the burials made of large stones in graveyards away from the habitation area. The dolmen was made of granite the east facing the measuring just like Christian characters. to me they looked like male and female figures. these status are made of 5 to 6 inches thick granite slabs. New types of artifacts.   left   side statue height
9. feet 3 inches width 6. feet 9. inches  right side statue height 9feet 5 inches width 6. feet 10inches. This site local call them as rakashsakallu demon stones.the story behind the name goes like this a godly person named Nunkemala siddeshwara was passing by this spot. Two rakashas living in the vicinity trouble him and the enraged Nunkemala siddeshwara's curse turned the rakashas into stone statues. 
The female statue is symmetrical and curvy. Very important point female statue two said hands cup marks wantedli used in statue.
The male status has straight line edges. according to the shilpa shastra. Perhaps this status was also symmetrical originally looks like the slanting limb is result of a damage. finally questions why were they made? One of the important point is their  first one this status used astronomical singnificances second one perhaps these status were grave markers and the surrounding plains was a burial ground. megalithic tomb &Anthropomorphic status of kumathi village this site is very very important prehistorical site of Karnataka.

kethavaram rock paintings

kethavaram is a small hamlet situated about 16 kilometres south -east of kurnool town the district headquarters. the site proper is located about 2kms to the south -east of the village. this site totally 13 rock shelters10 have paintings. local people called 1 shelter China chitrala gundu 2 peedda chitrala gundu 3 mekalolla gundu 4 chinna enugu gavi peedda enugu gavi. enugulagavi. when the present investigator, explored. the region in 1984, the cave areas revealed substantial artiftactual material of the mesolithic phase. when the multi disciplinary team visited the same site in 2008, the habitation deposits infornt of the cave was thoroughly disturbed as a result of the quarring activity. kethavaram rock paintings the thematicemphase an animal's in the rock paintings at kethavaram is obvious. the deer species accupy a prominent palace in the animal like hyena, monkey, dog,  tiger  humped bulls,  Fox,  rabbit reptiles like the lizard  a bird and human figures are also depicted. historical paintings of this phase ocuar in only one rock shelter and they comprise 5paitend. labale inscriptions and a couple of religious symbols is such as swastik and eternal Kant the inscriptions brahmi alphabets probably of 5 6 century ad kusa panjara guha Telugu meaning chinna enugu gavi  as like aswathama kunjaraha in mahabaratha. kethavaram village guide Sri c naganna

Ashoka siddapura (ashoka inspections )

ashoka, was an lndian emperor of the maurya dynasty who ruled almost  all of the India subcontinent from 268 to 232bce.
ashoka siddapura is an important and archaeological sit. ashoka siddapura village. molakalmuru talk. chitradurga district. Karnataka. ashoka siddapura,  brahmagiri, kadusiddapura,anesiddapura. megalithic burial site of brahmagiri coming  to think these sites. there's a close relationship between megalithic sites and ashoka edicts this megalithic is earlier tham 600 bc may  between 900 to 600 bc

budagavi rock paintings

budagavi is a small village situated
in the uravakonda talk of anantapur district,  about 6 km from the talk headquarters on the anantapur -Ballari road. the granite hillock at many places on its flat top and slopes revealed evidences of mesolithic and Neolithic tools. the site was discovered by Robert Bruce Foote. after ramireddy sir chandramouli the Neolithic habitation site thought no excavation were conducted here a large surface collection of Neolithic artifacts pottery and mesolithic tools was reported. the to tal number of rock paintings in all the four rock shelter is 20.
rock shelter 2 are in white colour. the white paintings comprise drawings of two human figures one in flat wash and another in outline,  in a standing posture side by side. the paintings in red ochre depict a deer humped bulls handprints geometric figures and human figures. (local people called is paintings rathapatallu )budagavi is a beautiful rock shelter

mudumala megalithic site

the stone alignment Nilurallu at mudumala or muraridodi is a megalithic. monument cantaining standing stones of 12 mudumala village. this site is megalithic. and megalithic burials place local people called is Banthirallu. mudumala village. maganur Mandalam. makthakal talk. mahabubnagar district. telangana. state.

chinthakunta prehistoric rock paintings

chinthakunta village  is prehistoric rock paintings site. this village is kadapa district jamalamadugu talk  muddanur mandalam chinthakunta village andrapradesh. the rock art hillock  located on the southern side of the kadapa - tadipatri highway road. the distance between the main road to guarry machine and from there to the hillock is around 800 meters. quite a number of paintings were also found in the granite regions. most important rock paintings shelters godugu gundu. mabbu gundu. yeddula aa gundu. peddavida gundu. chinnavida gundu pidugu gundu. padaga gundu. dhanam gundu. sannasayana gundu. van am gundu chilakala gundu. chembu gundu. Kalamagundu. rock art stone of the chinthakunta hillock for paintings.
the mesolithic pictures in south India can be divided into successive and distinct stylistic groups. the earlier is known form a few paintings in well protected pockets including godugu gundu paintings. this time frame stretches from about 25000 to 5000 bp. which is too long a span of time to be of absolute chronological reference. even then for convenience sake. l will reter to these pictures of the hunter  and gatherers as mesolithic pictures. chinthakunta is next to Bimabedka ( madyapradesh)Rock art printing site in lndia. in other words it is the second biggest or largest ancient rock art paintings sit in India and first one in south India as explored,  identified and analysed by Dr. erwin neumayer of Austria in 1981 who wrote 'lines on stone 'the prehistoric rock art of India. dr n chandramouli sir dr p.c. venkatasubbiah sir  another important point is in the recent past,  in the light of the  impotence of chinthakunta rock art paintings site,  Sri k linganna,archaeologist from ballari Karnataka and Sri p.narayanswami,  Eenadu press correspondent of kondapuram visited the site on June 25 2010 and took the photographs of various rock paintings stones. chinthakunta a  is nothing but Bimabedka (madyapradesh )

halakundi rock art

hhhhhalakundi is nearly 7 kilometres from ballari city mid eastern Karnataka. it is an outcrop of granitic hills of various sizes this hills are between halakundi and Ballari but it is very near to halakundi hills. here in halakundi we can find prehistoric art on rocks in the form of brushing and hitting. they drew animals birds human  (mele  $ female ), pictographs and other forms. these are all the evidences to prove the civilization adimanav at halakundi. this civilization found in Neolithic period between 10000 bc to 8000 b. main works of these people is hunting animals for food. in later day's they know to prepare stone weapons for hunting and they supply these weapons to other places. they give more important to entertainment and cultural activities, these celebrations are drawn on the rocks,  they have their own cultural and tradition they believe in god and they were worshipping god in the larer times.
site and it used  for cultural meeting etc. here my study is limit for rock art only but l am just giving brief about all others things like civilization job environment etc.
holakundi. holakindi. become halakundi this site totally Neolithic period site. halakundi rock is amazing rock art site.