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Megaliths are found across whole of India, but there are found in higher numbers in central, southern and eastern India. Man-made megalithic monuments in India include Anegundi , Byse rock art, Chovvanur burial cave , Hirapur dolmen , Hire Benakal , Kudakkallu Parambu , Sidlaphadi .
Megaliths occur in many parts of Melanesia, mainly in Milne Bay Province, Fiji and Vanuatu. Few excavations have been made and little is known about the structures. The megalith tomb Otuyam at Kiriwina has been dated to be approximately 2,000 years old which indicates that megaliths are an old custom in Melanesia. However very few megaliths ...
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Hire Benakal, Megalithic Site Karnataka: 2021 iii, iv (cultural) Hire Benakal is the largest megalithic site in India. The dolmens date to the 1st millennium BCE to the Iron Age and provide information about the culture that constructed India's first large-scale monuments. Rock paintings have also been discovered on site.
Brahmagiri is an archaeological site located in the Chitradurga district of the state of Karnataka, India. [1] Legend has it that this is the site where sage Gautama Maharishi (also spelt Gauthama Maharshi) and his wife Ahalya lived.
The Kailasha (IAST: Kailāśa) or Kailashanatha (IAST: Kailāśanātha) temple is the largest of the rock-cut temples at the Ellora Caves in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra of Maharashtra, India. A megalith carved into a cliff face, it is considered one of the most remarkable cave temples in the world because of its size, architecture, and ...
The stone circles of Junapani is an uninhabited burial site containing Sepulchral megaliths with remains of the dead. These are found in a small area, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northwest of Nagpur city in central India, in the Vidharba region. They are of fairly large size, visible on Google Earth, and grouped near banks of rivers. [5]
The in megaliths found in south Maharashtra are of varied types, such as head stones alone, or rock chambers and even dolmen. Megaliths in Vidarbha regions are burial sites marked by stone circles. [6] In Vidharba, the Naikund, Mahurjhari, Borgaon 40 km southwest of Nagpur and Khairwada 80 km west of Nagpur megalithic sites have been excavated. [7]