Ash mound in malapalli
Malapalli village. Manthralayam mandalam. Yammiganur talk. Kurnool district. Ap state. Malapalli village is Neolithic site. Village north side main highway road malapalli to madhavaram road left said field one ash mound in malapalli village. Ash mounds length East west side 60 fites and south north side 85 fites length. Ash mound hight 6 fites. Local people called Nakkalamitta. thippa, dibba, budhidibba, Ash mound are one of the important issuers dealing with the archeological remains related to Neolithic culture in south lndia. Malapalli village nearest ash mounds is there one of the Humapuram village top up the hill in Jandagattu. Author one Gudikallu village top up the hill in susilamma Gattu. Around the beginning of second millennium Bc when parts of north western lndia was under a thriving civilization with cities and towns of lndus village, the anther parts of lndia had been lnhabitend by Neolithic or chalcolithic. Archaeobotanical evidence for cultivation, however, dates from .ca 2200 Bc, while probably domestically cattle sheep and goats data to before 2600 Bc. The Neolithic continaed ash mounds 1200-1000 B.C.when lron objects fist apper and the perids is known is the megalithic. Which are now generally accepted as having ariginated from burnt cattle dung. in addition to the ash mounds there are many site as habitation aftern an the tops of granite hills as well a major concentrations of rick art attributed to this period.
