Piklihal is a village near Mudgal in the
Lingasugur
Lingasugur, also pronounced as Lingasugūru, is a municipal town in Raichur district in the Indian state of Karnataka. There are many Temples, hills and forts (Quila). The festivals of Muharram and Maha Shivaratri are important here. Mudgal in ...
taluk of
Raichur
Raichur, also pronounced as Rāyachūru (formerly Raichore), is a city and headquarters of eponymous Raichur district in the Karnataka state of India. Raichur, located between Krishna River, Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers.
History Ancient His ...
district in
Karnataka
Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...
state, India. Piklihal is a
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
period site. The site was excavated by
F. Raymond Allchin in 1952.
Piklihal is 6 km south to Mudgal town.
The Neolithic settlers in piklihal were cattle herders; they domesticated cattle, sheep, goats etc. They set up seasonal camps surrounded by cowpens made with posts stakes . Recent study has detailed on cultural assemble in multiple locations of the site Piklihal.
See also
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Maski
Maski is a town and an archaeological site in the Raichur district of the state of Karnataka, India.Amalananda Ghosh (1990), p282 It lies on the bank of the Maski river which is a tributary of the Tungabhadra. Maski derives its name from Mahasa ...
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Hatti
Hatti may refer to
*Hatti (; Assyrian ) in Bronze Age Anatolia:
**the area of Hattusa, roughly delimited by the Halys bend
**the Hattians of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC
**the Hittites of ''ca'' 1400–1200 BC
**the areas to the west of the Euphra ...
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Mudgal
Mudgal is a Municipal town in Lingsugur taluk, Raichur district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Karnataka. Mudgal is about 10 miles south-west of Lingsugur.
Mudgal has several inscriptions belonging to the Seuna Yadavas ...
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Tekkalakote
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Jaladurga
Jaladurga is a fortified village in Raichur district in the Indian state of Karnataka, about northeast of Lingsugur town. The Adil Shahi Kings of Bijapur built the fort.
Jaladurga Fort Grand Canyon of Raichur
The Krishna River cascades down ...
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Raichur
Raichur, also pronounced as Rāyachūru (formerly Raichore), is a city and headquarters of eponymous Raichur district in the Karnataka state of India. Raichur, located between Krishna River, Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers.
History Ancient His ...
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Districts of Karnataka
The southern Indian state of Karnataka consists of 31 districts grouped into 4 administrative divisions, ''viz''., Belagavi, Bengaluru
, Gulbarga, and Mysore. Geographically, the state has three principal variants: the western coastal stretc ...
References
Arjun and Pal. 2023-2024. Revisiting Piklihal: Landscape, Rock Shelters, and Potential Archaeological Research. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 11: 333-350.
Further reading
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Arjun and Pal. 2023-24. Revisiting Piklihal: Landscape, Rock Shelters, and Potential Archaeological Research. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 11: 333-350
Villages in Raichur district
Archaeological sites in Karnataka
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