[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c50.38 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c50.38 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c50.38 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c50.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c50.38) Excavation at the temple-site revealed at the lowest level four different types of megaliths: dolmenoid cist with a partition; a cist within cist with port-holes; an urn burial with post-exposure burial; and pit circles, one of them disclosing a joint extended inhumation burial. The individual buried in the urn was mesocranial (79.17) whereas the dolmenoid cist produced an adult male, an adult female and a child about three years old. While the female was brachycranial (82.08), the adult male was a tall person having a long head (72.58). In the joint burial one was a female with mesocranial index (76.16) and the other a tall long-headed (72.73) male. These megaliths have to be dated much earlier than the 3rd century A.D. when the site was selected for the erection of a temple-complex. - [Previous: v2.c50.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c50.37) - [Next: v2.c50.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c50.39) - [Up: v2.c50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c50) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c50.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c50.38) · Pramāṇa