An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s17.98
An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s17.98
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The skeletal remains from BRAHMAGIRI and MASKI indicate some racial elements of the builders: the autochthonous Australoid and proto-Australoid as Veddid types and a type similar to the al-Ubaid type and meso-brachy-cranial type probably of Scytho-Iranian stock known only from the megaliths. The people largely comprising the last racial element could be responsible for the introduction of the practice of megalithic erections [see 4.17].