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 pleis to scene date discovered therein. Systematic archaeological investigations in the Godavari basin were carried out since 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 border lands of Maharastra and Karnataka. 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.

Mr. D.L.N. Sastry was born in the year 1941 at Mogalikuduru, a village near Razole, in East Gadavari District. He had his school education at Malkipuram and Manepalli and took his M. A., degree in Ancient History and Archaeol ogy from Osmania University under Professors Dr. R. Subrahmanyam and Dr. R. Narasimha Rao in the year 1969. He did his M.Phil on "Prehistoric Cultures of Manjra Basin" under the guidance of Prof. B.R. Subrahmanyam of Nagarjuna Unverisity, Guntur in the year 1985.

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