THE PREHISTORIC CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF RUSHIKONDA AND CHANDRAMPALEM BASINS IN VISAKHAPATNAM COAST

Dr. N. Srinivas; M. Nageswara Rao

Volume : V, Issue : X, October - 2015

THE PREHISTORIC CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF RUSHIKONDA AND CHANDRAMPALEM BASINS IN VISAKHAPATNAM COAST

Dr. N. Srinivas, M. Nageswara Rao

Abstract :

The coastal region is endowed with beautiful landscape such as bays, ridges, creeks, beaches, bad lands etc., which gained much attention by the geologists and geomorphologists. The main stream together with the sub streams drain towards further east cutting through the hillocks. In fact the catchment area or the watershed area of Maddigedda is divided into two basins the Chandrampalem (Western bigger basin) and the Rushikonda (Eastern smaller basin) is due to the gorge in between the local hills. The evidence characterizing Mesolithic cultural phase and Neolithic sites are located at the foothills, and most of them are located in the vicinity of the present day settlements but at a higher elevation