The present book is a comprehensive evaluation of Early Human cultures flourished in Andhra Pradesh based on the result of archaeological investigations and scientific studies carried out by several individual scholars from time to time. It deals with Stone Age Cultures periodically divided into lower, middle, upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures as well as subsequent early village settlements of Neolithic-Chalcolithic and Megalithic cultures in view of socio-economic and cultural feature of each 'culture in its geographical setting' in spatiotemporal perspectives. If accounts the depiction of hunter-gatherer communities and village farming communities viewed' through the present day tribal communities as part of analogy for better understanding the existence of past human life which formed an incredible base and development of human population since time immemorial.
This book on prehistory of Andhra Pradesh will be useful to young people who are interested in archaeological studies.
As part of his archaeological field investigations since 1986 discovered more than 300 sites (i.e. prehistoric, proto-historic, early historic, etc.) in Chittoor, Kadapa and Kurnool districts of Andhra Pradesh. He has 80 research articles and two books to his credit. He has conducted two National seminars and completing UGC and ICHR Research Projects in Chittoor and Kurnool districts. He is a life member of several academic bodies dealing with archaeology and history, i.e. APHC, SIHC, IHC, ISPQS, Ancient Asia, Dravidian Studies, etc.
However, the very inception and the process of development in the early human society of the present region could be traced and studied in different angles inter-linked with various factors derived absolutely from geographical, cultural and many other determined parameters. In order to trace these historical episodes, especially the nature of society and its transformation, that perhaps took several hundred, thousand years by undergoing various stages of performances primarily designated to the formation of a simple society survived on simple economy by utilizing the naturally available resources through specific exploitation strategies and this pattern had a direct link with the selection of raw-material, technique of manufacture and production of tools. This, perhaps, certainly had generated momentum for the social transformation within the Pleistocene period. Hence, the social transformation at this stage would have been nominal with little variation, but being similar throughout, it had an immense change in the technology, behavior and cultural component. Thereafter, the succeeding Holocene witnessed diverse environmental conditions that had made human populations to change their technology, their adaptable strategies and therefore, by the end of Holocene around 3000 BCE, there occurred yet another radical change in the socio-economic aspect designated as eolithic Stone Age, i.e.
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Hindu (876)
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