The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t7.16

c14.s1.t7.16

The other relevant issue is the so-called sudden appearance of the megalithic culture at Brahmagiri and the dramatization of Wheeler by comparing the Toda settlements and the city of Ootacamund for the difference between the megalithic and pre-megalithic phases. The evidence of Brahmagiri itself with some of the pots from the Chalcolithic burial in Br. 17 with some of the crude rimless type bowls etc., suggests a slow infiltration. These "significant overlaps", as Wheeler himself described them, were confirmed at Sanganakallu. Certain pottery forms common to both were pointed out by the writer.¹