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 )