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 )
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