New Methodological Approaches to Indian Rock Art: Preliminary Report from the Kurnool District Archaeological Project

In 2003, as part of a program of archaeological survey in the southern part of Kurnool District in Andhra Pradesh, south India, a series of previously unreported rock art sites were recorded. These primarily consist of pictographs, painted onto the walls of quartzite rock shelters and boulders. They appear to cover a range of time periods from the present day and potentially extending back into the Pleistocene. This paper presents the results of the research undertaken by the authors in Kurnool district of Karnatak.