Prehistoric Sites
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| No | Action | |||||
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| 1 | Bhimbetka | Madhya Pradesh | Rock shelters, cave paintings, Acheulian tools, occupation from Lower Palaeolithic to medieval, UNESCO site | Palaeolithic | ||
| 2 | Hathnora | Madhya Pradesh | Narmada Man skull cap, the only hominid fossil found in India, Narmada valley | Palaeolithic | ||
| 3 | Attirampakkam | Tamil Nadu | Acheulian handaxes, among the oldest Palaeolithic sites in India, Kortallayar valley | Palaeolithic | ||
| 4 | Pallavaram | Tamil Nadu | First palaeolith found in India, by Robert Bruce Foote in 1863 | Palaeolithic | ||
| 5 | Didwana (Singi Talav) | Rajasthan | Lower Palaeolithic Acheulian tools, dune and lake sequence | Palaeolithic | ||
| 6 | Nevasa | Maharashtra | Type site of the Middle Palaeolithic Nevasan industry, Pravara river | Palaeolithic | ||
| 7 | Belan valley | Uttar Pradesh | Unbroken Palaeolithic to Neolithic sequence, bone tools, bone mother goddess figurine | Palaeolithic | ||
| 8 | Soan valley | Punjab (Pakistan) | Sohan pebble tool industry, Lower Palaeolithic, Siwalik foothills | Palaeolithic | ||
| 9 | Kurnool caves (Billasurgam) | Andhra Pradesh | Upper Palaeolithic bone tools, ash suggesting use of fire, cave fauna | Palaeolithic | ||
| 10 | Hunsgi-Baichbal | Karnataka | Acheulian occupation sites, limestone tools, Lower Palaeolithic | Palaeolithic | ||
| 11 | Isampur | Karnataka | Acheulian quarry and workshop, limestone handaxes | Palaeolithic | ||
| 12 | Patne | Maharashtra | Upper Palaeolithic, ostrich eggshell beads, engraved ostrich eggshell | Palaeolithic | ||
| 13 | Baghor | Madhya Pradesh | Upper Palaeolithic shrine, mother goddess stone, Son valley | Palaeolithic | ||
| 14 | Bori | Maharashtra | Tools with volcanic ash, debated early date for human presence, Kukdi river | Palaeolithic | ||
| 15 | Jwalapuram | Andhra Pradesh | Tools below and above the Toba volcanic ash, Jurreru valley | Palaeolithic | ||
| 16 | Gudiyam caves | Tamil Nadu | Palaeolithic tools, cave occupation, Kortallayar valley | Palaeolithic | ||
| 17 | Bagor | Rajasthan | Largest Mesolithic site in India, microliths, animal domestication, Kothari river | Mesolithic | ||
| 18 | Adamgarh | Madhya Pradesh | Earliest evidence of animal domestication, microliths, rock shelters | Mesolithic | ||
| 19 | Sarai Nahar Rai | Uttar Pradesh | Human burials, hearths, microliths, Ganga plain | Mesolithic | ||
| 20 | Mahadaha | Uttar Pradesh | Burials with grave goods, bone and antler ornaments | Mesolithic | ||
| 21 | Damdama | Uttar Pradesh | Large Mesolithic burial ground, microliths, animal bones | Mesolithic | ||
| 22 | Langhnaj | Gujarat | Microliths, human skeletons, wild animal bones | Mesolithic | ||
| 23 | Birbhanpur | West Bengal | Microliths, Damodar valley | Mesolithic | ||
| 24 | Chopani Mando | Uttar Pradesh | Earliest pottery in India, hut floors, Belan valley | Mesolithic | ||
| 25 | Tilwara | Rajasthan | Microliths, animal bones, Luni valley | Mesolithic | ||
| 26 | Lekhahia | Uttar Pradesh | Rock shelters, human burials, microliths, Mirzapur hills | Mesolithic | ||
| 27 | Morhana Pahar | Uttar Pradesh | Rock paintings including chariot and horse scenes, Vindhyas | Mesolithic | ||
| 28 | Teri sites | Tamil Nadu | Microliths on red sand dunes, Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi coast | Mesolithic | ||
| 29 | Mehrgarh | Balochistan (Pakistan) | Earliest farming village in the subcontinent, wheat and barley, cattle, earliest cotton, dentistry | Neolithic | ||
| 30 | Burzahom | Jammu & Kashmir | Pit dwellings, dog buried with its master, menhirs, bone tools | Neolithic | ||
| 31 | Gufkral | Jammu & Kashmir | Pit dwellings, 'cave of the potter', wild and domesticated animals | Neolithic | ||
| 32 | Chirand | Bihar | Bone and antler tools, Neolithic to Chalcolithic sequence, Ganga valley | Neolithic | ||
| 33 | Senuwar | Bihar | Rice and barley, Neolithic settlement, Kaimur foothills | Neolithic | ||
| 34 | Koldihwa | Uttar Pradesh | Claimed earliest evidence of rice cultivation, Belan valley | Neolithic | ||
| 35 | Mahagara | Uttar Pradesh | Cattle pen with hoof marks, rice, circular huts | Neolithic | ||
| 36 | Daojali Hading | Assam | Jadeite, cord-marked pottery, stone querns, north-eastern Neolithic | Neolithic | ||
| 37 | Sarutaru | Assam | Shouldered celts, cord-marked pottery | Neolithic | ||
| 38 | Kuchai | Odisha | Neolithic celts, pottery, Mayurbhanj | Neolithic | ||
| 39 | Golbai Sasan | Odisha | Neolithic to Chalcolithic sequence, bone and antler tools | Neolithic | ||
| 40 | Utnur | Telangana | Ash mound, cattle pen, southern Neolithic pastoralists | Neolithic | ||
| 41 | Kupgal | Karnataka | Ash mound, rock art, dolerite ringing rocks | Neolithic | ||
| 42 | Piklihal | Karnataka | Ash mound, cattle herders, southern Neolithic | Neolithic | ||
| 43 | Maski | Karnataka | Neolithic settlement; Ashokan minor rock edict that names Ashoka | Neolithic | ||
| 44 | Brahmagiri | Karnataka | Neolithic to megalithic to early historic sequence, Ashokan edict, excavated by Wheeler | Neolithic | ||
| 45 | Sanganakallu | Karnataka | Neolithic hilltop settlement, ground stone axe factory | Neolithic | ||
| 46 | Tekkalakota | Karnataka | Neolithic settlement, gold ornaments, urn burials | Neolithic | ||
| 47 | Hallur | Karnataka | Earliest iron in South India, Neolithic to megalithic transition | Neolithic | ||
| 48 | T. Narsipur | Karnataka | Neolithic to megalithic sequence, confluence of Kaveri and Kabini | Neolithic | ||
| 49 | Paiyampalli | Tamil Nadu | Neolithic celts, horse gram and green gram | Neolithic | ||
| 50 | Ahar (Tambavati) | Rajasthan | Type site of the Banas culture, copper smelting, black-and-red ware | Chalcolithic | ||