An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.916

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(15°51' to 16°6'; 77°59' to 78°30'), Dts Kurnool and Mahbubnagar. With a view of salvaging antiquarian remains in 107 villages covering an area of about 660 sq km, to be submerged under a reservoir of the Srisailam Hydroelectric Project, an intensive exploration of the village was carried out in during 1960-1 to 1967-8 (*IAR 1960-1*, p. 42; *1962-3*, p. 2, 48; *1963-4*, p. 4; *1967-8*, pp. 2, 3, 5) and again 1977-9 by the ASI and some sites excavated by the ASI, State Dept of Arch., Andhra Pradesh, Nagarjuna Univ., Guntur, and Birla Inst. of Arch., Hyderabad. (The information given below is also based on communication from I.K. Sarma and on the writer's personal observation). Thirty villages in Dt Kurnool and 28 in Dt Mahbubnagar have yielded remains ranging from prehistoric to late medieval times, in addition to 42 Cāḷukyan, Kākatiya and Vijayanagara temples. The sites are as follows (LP = Lower Palaeolithic [4.2]; MP = Middle Palaeolithic [4.3]; M = Mesolithic [4.5]; N = Neolithic [4.6.8]; Meg = Megalithic [4.17.7]; EH = early historical [4.18.10]; LH = late historical [4.19.8].