The Pre Historic Culture of The Manjra Valley
The Pre-Historic Culture of The Manjra Valley- Medak District Andhra Pradesh
The Godavari and its tributary valleys held considerable importance in Indian prehistory for the wealth of faunal and lithic art factual material of the plies to scene date discovered therein. Systematic archaeological investigations in the Godavari basin were carried out in 1959 by Dr. Z.D. Sankalia, R.V.Joshi, S.N. Rajaguru and Thakur Raja Ram Singh.
Manjra is a southern tributary of the river Godavari joining the latter in the middle reaches of its course. In Andhra Pradesh, it drains the Medak and Nizamabad districts, the borderlands of Maharastra, and Karnataka. The occurrence of Stone Age artifacts in the Manjra basin was first reported by A.V.N. Murthy in the year 1957-58. In 1971-72 Bopardikar systematically explored the upper reaches of Manjra and the same area was reexplored by R.V. Joshi and his associates. R.M. Sadakshariah reported in Bidar district several Middle and Micro lithic sites.
