Archaeological culture · c. 3200–1200 BCE
Southern Neolithic (Ashmound tradition)
The first farmers and herders of the Deccan, in today's Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, living near granite hills along the Tungabhadra, Krishna and Hagari rivers. They kept large herds of cattle, grew millets, and left great mounds of burnt cattle dung, the ashmounds, at sites such as Utnur, Kupgal and Budihal.
Their culture gave way to the Iron Age megalith builders.
See Southern Neolithic (Ashmound tradition) on the map in 3200 BCE
- On the map
- 3200–1200 BCE
How we know
No writing existed; it is known from excavated sites dated by radiocarbon.