A History of Agriculture in India v1.c22.s2.4

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The Neolithic settlers of Paiyampalli cultivated cereals and pulses. Charred grains of pulses identified as kulthi (*Dolichos biflorus*) and mung (*Vigna radiata*) have been found in those levels where a few sherds of megalithic pottery occurred in an essentially neolithic habitation-deposit. These may be dated 315 B.C. The skeletal remains from the neolithic levels represented animals of the bovid group, sheep, spotted deer, fowl, pig, jungle cat and rhinoceros. Swamps and thick jungle in the neighbourhood of the Paiyampalli are suggested by the presence of bones of rhinoceros.