An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c28.18

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**Adamgarh,** Dt Hoshangabad, with a small group of natural rock-shelters [14.1.1], a large number of which exist in the Vindhyan hills in c. India clothed with fairly thick forest vegetation readily providing suitable habitat for wild animals. The shelters formed by the natural process of differential weathering of the sedimentary rocks are valuable for the investigations of Stone Age cultures as quite a few of them contain prehistoric habitational deposits. The location of the Adamgarh hill, about 2 km s. of the Narmada river at Hoshangabad, is very suitable for tracing the cultural sequence and stratigraphy in the undisturbed deposits in rock-shelters and for attempting a correlation of the material exposed in the cliff sections on the NARMADA between Hoshangabad and Narsinghpur which region has long been known for its rich prehistoric potentialities.