This news was released two days ago and had me thrilled! Being in several anthropology classes, you hear about a lot of different case studies and sites but I've never heard anything about burial or funerary in India. So this news is terribly exciting and eye-opening for me.
According to the article that I found on the Archaeologica News website was very intriguing. They released that the area of discovery was located in the Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, in Southeastern India.
The site is supposedly the remains of the Iron Age and Satavahana era, which ranges from 230 BCE - 220 CE. AP Archaeology and Museums Department Director P Chenna Reddy, who was working on the site at the time of breakthrough, said that the burials are encircled by 14 to 20 huge boulders, in which, the actual cist burials are topped by a huge capstone that are datable to 1000 BCE. Along with this find, the team and their explorations came across a huge Satavahana site in an extent of 100 acres, littered with bricks, brick bats, red polished ware, shell bangle pieces, iron slogs and stone millers, datable to 1st century BCE to 2nd century CE on the north-east corner of the village. An earthen rampart with a moat was also found, confirming the hypothesis that this site was a Satavahana fortified settlement.
Not only is this find extremely exciting for all the Anthropology enthusiasts, like myself, but even for anyone in terms of the historic data. This discovery was very valuable as it adds to the little publicized knowledge and material culture of the Satavahanas.
If you'd like to look further into the article, here's where it can be found. http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/004719.html
The map was found and used from this website. http://web.me.com/greenfieldhillchurch/FOCI_Web_Site/Where_We_Work.html
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