A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c8.16

c8.16

On the data obtained at Brahmagiri in Mysore, Maski in Raichur district and Porkalam in Travancore-Cochin, Sanur, Amritamangalam and Kunrathūr in Chingleput, this culture is thought to have been introduced by an iron-using people from the south some time between 300 B.C. and the middle of the first century A.D.; and 800 B.C. has been suggested as the earliest possible date for the first occupation of Brahmagiri. The date suggested for the commencement of Megalithic culture appears, however, to be rather too late; Gordon’s date some time between 700 and 400 B.C. sounds better, but it may go still further back.