Morlabanda megalithic Site

Morlabanda Megalithic Sit 

A group of 12 to 18 Megalithic burials noticed in the Gudibanda mandal of Ramaiahnahatti  village in Anantapur district. Andra Pradesh state The monuments are located at a distance of 2 km facing South East (Morlabanda) of the village.

        The entiretop of the hill yielde numerable traces of megalithic habitational settlement as well as burials.

There is a perennial spring rising a

natural water cistern which might have 

provided water on eternal footings.Among

which one of the huge dolmenoid cist 

surrounded by 3circles of slab circles

facing East with coordinates 13 degree 95', 58degree 99",N; 77degree 15' , 84degree 78", respectively. The monument extends E-W 13.5 mts and N-S extends 15mts .The outer two circles are flat topped and small in size resembling in the pattern of Iralabanda-Megalithic site in Chittoor district. These two circles are packed with blocks of stones to give support to with stand the flat topped 

slab.

The inner third circle  consist of Unique

Anthropomorphic  Statue (2.40 mts.X 1.85mts.)  with a semi circular head 

measuring about 80 cm. without  any

sensory  organs , with a sharp protruding edge on both side resembles shoulder of the Pectoral girdle of 1.90mts. the remaining distal end  of statue was flat carved without any navel and Hind limbs.

On the back side of the statue two of 

anthropomorphic statues are planted resembling fore limbs . The remaining part of the circle extends with flat topped slabs continue with alternate placing of long slabs probably menhirs  like appearance (five in no .) with a height of five and half to six feet . The huge biggest cap stone measures 5.50mts E-W and 4.90mts N-S was broken by the Treasure hunters .

 Surrounding this burial site few pieces of Black and  Red ware, Black ware ,Red ware,  dull Red ware and Polished  Black ware were identified . Opposite to this monument noticed planting of three Menhirs the first one is squarely carved with a sharp head and the second menhir

 is pillar like and third menhir is again in slab form ,^6

Courtesy by : Kadapa Jangri Narayana Sir 

Kondishetty Nagaraj Sir (Anantapur)

Julappanahatti (Krishna giri) Jaganath Sir and Vijay Kumar Sir .More than details contact my phone number 9482006679.

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Gavali Pre Historic Rock Art site

Gavali is a Archaeology large site, located 38 km south east of Kundapur in Udupi district. Karnataka state. It was first discovered and reported by B Vasanth Shetty in 1983. Here, large granite boulders are found spread on the open ground.In the middle of a small stream,on a boulder is a life -sized standing bull facing east.A smaller bull is also drawn facing this bull and westward.The anatomical features of the former bull are boldly outlined and it seems to have a divine character.Its horns are fashioned elliptically and the tips are joined together. within this, there is an oval shape designed with a vertical straight line in the middle and a horizontal line cutting it, which seems to be a yoni symbol.The bull has a prominent hump,a long slightly raised tail, and an erect penis and testicles. In the samller bull, the hump is less prominent, and its forelegs and hind legs are fused and extended to form an intricate design.Such a design is also found at Sonda.On another bull half buried in the ground a life sized bull is engaged on the exposed part similar to the first bull .Naer it is a double row of cup marks, referred to above as resembling the wooden set of*chennemane *,a folk game with religious significance. 

Early Reference**- A.Sundar Sir ,Murugeshi Sir, and team shirva 

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Motukupalli Megalithic Site

A group of 12 to 15 Megalithic burials noticed in the Kadiri mandal of Motukupalli village in Anantapur district, Andrapradesh state.The monuments are located at a distance of 4 km facing east of the village.Near to theses monuments a water cistern was noticed on the north direction names as "Reddori bavi" .Out of which are dolmens, stone circles and majority are salb circles. Megalithic slab circles are more prevalent in the Anantapur district of Rayalaseema region.

In the present scenario all the monuments are fallen to the earth.few monuments are noticed on a granite bed and some are in the earth. The slab circles are encircled with two circles,in the middle with dolmen or dolmenoid - cist with Cap-stone . The first circle with nearly 9 to 12 semi circular slabs with a height of 1.5 m to 2m width of 1.5 m is noticed. The second circle arranged in the comers with half anthropomorphic status, two are noticed on one side and one is another side. Few status are fallen to the earth on other sides. These types of similarities are identified with 1

Eguvakantala cheruvu anthropomorphic status site in Chittoor district AP.

2 Devadlapalli village Kadapa district AP

3 Morlabanda village Anantapur district AP

4.Agoli (Mallapura Comp) village Koppal district Karnataka State.

5Jadagamaduakkam hill Bagepalli village Chikkaballapur district Karnataka state.

6.Mallachandram village Krishangiri district Tamilanadu state.

For all the monuments the front orthostat identified with port- hole on eastern direction. Almost all the monuments are in disturbed condition. Identification of Black and Red were and Red were were noticed in the nearby vicinity of the monuments.

Courtesy - Kadapa Jangari Narayana Sir.

Motukupalli Krishn Nayak Sir.

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Akkampalli Rock Paintings

Akkampalli village.Sanjamala Mandal . Kurnool district.Andrapradesh state.Akkampalli is important Archaeological site consisting of there natural rock sheltes of the three sites,one is a painted rock shelter locally known as Mosalla - Gundu (Boulder of Crocodile's),while the remaining two are natural formed rock caves.Artwork found within the caves reflect the life, culture, traits and beliefs of the era. .

The Boulder of Crocodile's is open on there sides towards the west, north and south and contains a large number of paintings,drawn in red ochre colour, including human figures, geometric designs, Birds figures, and three life- sized reptiles.The rest of the figures have been observed by vandalism and by natural weathering of the rock.  For more details visit my You tube channel (SKL Rock Art K.Linganna Swami) Special thanks to you Nall Obulesh .Please Save the History Share the People...................... 

watagal Pre Historic Rock Art Site

Watagal is situated in Manvi taluk of Raichur district and it is about 25 Kms.Lingasugur on the road leading to Raichur (District).Karnataka State .It (16 06 N 76 45 E) was first recorded by R. Bruce Foote in 1896 . Subsequently visited by various scholars and even by Dr .A.Sundra in 1975 .The materials available here are from prehistoric to historic period. Excavations were conducted here by Dr.Jim G.Shaffer and the State Archaeology department since 1978 till 1998 over about five seasons.

To the south of the village there is a large granite inselberg.This in the esest West direction.piled up with lengthy pieces of granite rock.On the esest side of the hill the soil is extremely less.on the top position there is some soil.Only pilled up granite rocks can be seen in the rest of the please.Originally archaeological deposits encircled the inselberg.however construction of a temple complex and direct use of the site area for cultivation and animal pens destroyed a large area.The disturbed area is in the south side.

In the hillock near the Western end the rock brasings was noticed in,1987.lnsubsequent years few more paintings were noticed .Dr Balasubramaniam limiting  studies to the rock bruisings only.. after visited this site Mohan R,K.Linganna,Devaraju his team some more scholars.

The main figure is a bull being attacked by a tiger.The face of the bull is turned down and the horns are depicted curved inside.bending towards the same side.just in front is a tiger with raised tall. The hub of the bull is very well done and the legs are slender with delicately painted hoofs.The bull is boldly depicted with robust body features.with broad chest and thin waste and having a long tail portion.The entire figure catches the eye of the onlookers.

The tiger is depicted in a very bold way.No doubt the tiger is shorter than the bull but it' depicts the leaping and attacking style with raised ears.The body is decorated with straps like a tiger in a real sense.The body portion with straps are done with etching and subsequently bruised while the legs have bruisings done as above.

The technique employed for depicting the bull in the body portion and the body portion of the tiger is etching, where as the outer line of these animals has the bruisings.

The top position of the boulder, above these animals has the depicted of man in motion, swastika like design with bent ends,man ma(in Brahmi letter)tree, with circle at the bottom and two branches on the sides.The bottom portion in between the animals has a standing man in moving posture and there is a plus mark near it.Under the tiger,at the bottom portion there is a twig like depiction. This rock art is belong to Neolithic period watagal is an ancient village settlement from Neolithic period (circa 5000 B.C.) this village archaeological adeviance also available for example Neolithic period, broken pottery pieces, hands tool's beeds,bled pieces,ash mound prices and lron slag please Save the History Share the People..... More than details contact my phone number 9482006679.

Anthropomorphic statues in South India

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Kariganuru Rock Art SKL (Neolithic Site )

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