The Megalithic Culture of South India
Contents: 1. Recent investigations on south Indian Megaliths with reference to Karnataka: Eemerging trends/A. Sundara. 2. The astronomical significance of the Megalithic sites at Nilaskal and Byse/Srikumar M. Menon, Mayank N. Vahia and Kailash Rao M. 3. Excavation at Kurugodu, in Karnataka/M. Mahadevaiah and N. Veeraraghavan. 4. The Megalithic burials of Tamil Nadu: An analysis/S.B. Darsana. 5. Immaiyum Marumaiyum: An exploration into the cognitive universe of the early historic Tamil country/V. Selvakumar. 6. The Porunthal excavation and its Megalithic monuments/K. Rajan. 7. Archaeology of Bhavani River Valley, Tamil Nadu/V.P. Yathees Kumar. 8. Excavations of the urn burial site at Adichanallur, Tamil Nadu 2003-04/M. Nambirajan, Arun Malik and C.R. Gayathri. 9. Archaeology of Namakkal region, Tamil Nadu/S. Selvakumar, M. Rajesh. 10. Recent discoveries of archaeological sites in the Kalvarayan hills, Tamil Nadu/R. Ramesh. 11. Archaeology of lower Vaigai river valley, Tamil Nadu/P. Balamurugan. 12. New interpretations on the typology of the Megalithic monuments and recent finds in Kerala/Jenee Peter. 13. Megalithic remains excavated from a Cist burial at Niramakulam, district Pathanamthitta, Kerala/Ajit Kumar and Ambily C.S. 14. Significant characteristics of Megalithic culture in Andhra Pradesh/K.P. Rao. 15. Megalithic culture of Andhra Pradesh: A review/P.C. Venkatasubbaiah. 16. Megalithic half-anthropomorphic statue sites in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh/K. Raghu Babu. 17. Megalithic Art of Andhra Pradesh/N. Chandramouli. 18. Megalithic Rock Art in Rayalaseema - Andhra Pradesh: Recent discoveries/V. Ramabrahmam. 19. Excavation of non-Sepulchral Megalithic burials at Hirapur, Maharashtra/Kantikumar A. Pawar & Kim Yongjun. 20. Survey of Stone Circles at Junapani/Riza Abbas, Mayank N. Vahia and Aniket Sule. 21. Transforming the dead: social implications of horse remains in Megalithic burials of Vidarbha Region/Shantanu Vaidya and Pankaj Goyal. 22. Architecture of Megalithic burials, district Nagpur/Akash D. Gedam. 23. Excavation at Malli, district Gondia, Maharashtra 2010-11/Virag G. Sontakke and Anand V. Bhoyar. 24. Meadows Taylor and south Indian Megaliths/C.B. Patil. 25. Megalithic culture: A prelude to the subsequent economic growth in Peninsular India and the Deccan/G.K. Lama. 26. Origin and authorship of Indian Megaliths/Vinay Kumar. 27. The Megalithic culture of Adwa Valley in north-central Vindhyas/V.D. Misra, B.B. Misra, J.N. Pal, M.C. Gupta and Ajai Kumar Misra. 28. Legacy of Megalithic practices in Bihar: An ethno-archaeological study/Sachin Kumar Tiwary. 29. Burial traditions in Uttarakhand and trans-Himalayas including Tibet/R.C. Bhatt, Vinod Nautiyal, P.M. Saklani, Sudhir Nautiyal, Sanjiv Juyal and Hari Chauhan. 30. The Megalithic tradition of the Chekhesangs of Manipur/P. Binodini Devi. 31. Dolmen and its associated culture in Korean Peninsula/Lee Youngmoon and Kim Yongjun. 32. Indian Megaliths in wider context/K.N. Dikshit.