An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s17.58

v1.c9.s17.58

None of these megaliths have been dated absolutely or archaeologically. All that can be said is that while some of the structures are of prehistoric age, a substantial number of them are of recent dates. For want of excavated data it is not possible to know the cultural equipment of their builders. On the basis of structural and cultural affinities, the e. Indian Megalithic culture appears to be closely linked with those of s.-e. Asia and the Pacific islands on the one hand and those of Orissa, Chota Nagpur [4.17.4] and c. India [4.17.6] on the other (Fürer-Haimendorf, 1945; Choudhury, 1966).