Research Paper

A Preliminary study on the Ashmound sites in the Lower Tungabhadra Region of Andhra Pradesh

Authors: P.C. Venkatasubbaiah

Year: 2012, Volume: 3, Page/Article: 1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aa.12304

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Abstract

The present paper deals with the preliminary observations made on two ash mound sites,
Kambadahal and Tsallakudluru, located during the recent field investigations carried out as part
of ICHR project in the months of May-June, 2009., along the banks of river Tungabhadra and
it’s many affluents covering the eastern part of Yemmiganur, western part of kurnool taluk and
eastern part of Kodumur taluks of Kurnool district. It also gives a brief account of the main
character of the Neolithic culture of the area along with the inferences made on the evidence of
ash mound sites.