An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c34.264

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**Giddalur** (15°10′; 78°55′) area, Dt Kurnool, first explored for its Stone Age remains by Cammiade, whose materials were examined by Burkitt. The examined areas were: the Bhavanasi gravels and Yerrakondapalem, the two being at either end of the Dornala-Atmakur pass of the Nallamalai; Gundala-Brahmesvaram at the top of the hill forming the source of the Gundlakamma river; and Giddalur, the town near Nandikanama pass, past which two rivers Sagileru and Enumaleru flow and meet, the exact locations studied of the last area not indicated. The study brought out a series of four salient lithic cultures of different ages ranging from the earliest handaxe industries of quartzite to the latest microlithic industry of agate and quartz. It was suggested that the stratigraphic and climatic data here supported a cycle of pluviation and interpluviation which might correspond to the Himalayan cycle of glaciation and interglaciation worked out by de Terra and Paterson [4.2], and also that the Kurnool tools had considerable similarities with their s. African counterparts.