Includes bibliographies and index

The book presents a systematic and scientific study of South Indian Neolithic culture in the Kadapa region of Andhra Pradesh carried out through explorations (village-to-village survey) and section-scrapings at select sites by using ecological and ethnographic analogy as parameters in order to reconstruct the cultural process of human adaptation in the Central Pennar Basin during 2nd Millennium B.C. The present region of research was a desideratum in view of the expansion of Southern Neolithic Culture with it's distinctive characteristic features and hence has been designed with due regard to recent developments in the methodological applications in order to use the potentialities of material culture for a better understanding.