Image: Archaeological sites in Indian Sub-continent
Following is the list of important Archaeological sites in India with Map
ADICHANALLUR – Archaeological site
Located in Tamil Nadu
An important Megalithic site
Evidence of Megalithic burials
Discovery of iron tools & objects
Evidence of agriculture & herding
ATTIRRAM PAKAM – Archaeological site
Located in Tamil Nadu
A Lower Palaeolithic site
An important site of what is known as Madras Industry
It has yielded rich acheulean tools
BAGOR – Archaeological site
Located in Rajasthan
A well-excavated site of Mesolithic Age
It had a distinctive microlithic industry
It gives evidence of pastoralism (the earliest evidence of domestication of animals along with Adamgarh)
BHIMBETKA – Archaeological site
Located in Vindhyan range, south of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh
An important site of the stone age (paleolithic to mesolithic)
A striking site of pre-historic art
It has more than 500 painted rock shelters (painting of human, animals and birds)
CHOPNIMANDO – Archaeological site
Located in Uttar Pradesh
An important site of Mesolithic
Evidence of eip-palaeolithic (phase-I) and Mesolithic (Later phase) – Epi-palaeolithic represents stone tools smaller than upper palaeolithic but larger than mesolithic.
Earliest evidence of use of pottery about 9000-8000 BC
Evidence of rice (Neolithic age)
Evidence of circular & oval huts
Chopnimando evidence suggests a transition from hunting-gathering to settled mode of life, possibly with incipient agriculture
Evidence of co-existence of Late Harappan Pottery & PGW
KILE GUL MOHAMMAD – Archaeological site
Located in Quetta Valley in Baluchistan.
A pre-Harappan culture site as well as N-W neolithic site (5000 BC)
Evidence of mud houses
Evidence of Herding – Cattle, Sheep, Goat
Evidence of microliths
Evidence of different kinds of pottery (a) Crude handmade, (b) Fine wheel made black-on-red ware with geometric design, (c) Kechi beg ware (named after the site of Kechi begin this region, where the pottery was first discovered), buff ware, also use of red paint.
Evidence of copper objects.
LEVAN – Archaeological site
Located in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP)
A site of Early Harappan Culture
Noted for evidence of stone tools factory
MAHADAHA – Archaeological site
Located in UP on the bank of a dried up ox-bow lake.
A mesolithic site
Evidence of microliths made of chert, chalcedony, quartz, agate etc.
Evidence of remarkable burial practices – 2 cases of male-female burials
Grave pits are elliptical and slightly sloping
The general orientation of bodies is west-east.
Evidence of grave goods which include bone ornaments, microliths, animal bones.
MUTCHTALACHINTAMANI GAVI – Archaeological site
Located in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.
An important site of upper paeleolithic
First evidence of bone tools
More than 90% of the total tools discovered are bone tools
NEWASA – Archaeological site
Located in Maharashtra
Findings & study of Newasa by H.D. Sankalia in 1956 established the Middle Palaeolithic phase in India
Newasa is a representative site of Middle Palaeolithic phase in India
PIKLIHAL – Archaeological site
Located in Andhra Pradesh
An important neolithic site of South India (2000 BC to 1000 BC)
Evidence of domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats.
Evidence of ash-mounds, cowshed & cattle hoof impressions
Also represents the earliest iron phase (Megalithic) in South India
Also evidence of copper hoard culture
Rock-painting of the horse belonging to the iron phase
PANDU RAJAR DHIBI – Archaeological site
Located in Burdwan (West Bengal)
A chalcolithic site of Eastern Chalcolithic culture
The remains of structures are poor indicating post holes and round houses