Miscellaneous

Doddalathur Megalithic Site - Karnataka

October 13 , 2024 19 hrs 0 min 10 0

Excavation works have started at the Doddalathur Megalithic burial site in Hanur taluk of the Chamarajanagar district.
The west of the village is a small hillock and in the adjacent fields are hundreds of burials of the megalithic period which corresponds to the Iron Age.
The burials consist of circles made of large boulders hence the name “megalithic”.
Since iron technology came into use during this period, it is also known as Iron Age.
In south India, this period has been broadly placed in the time bracket of 1200 BCE to 300 CE.