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nool have been found the earliest of cave-dwellings in Billa Surgam near Banaganapalli, Yerrazari and Yegunta. These belong to the Pleistocene age. Some remains of Krishna and Kathiawar along with the Banda remains belong to the post-Karnul epoch. The Chakradharpur finds of Mr. Panchanan Mitra and Anderson represent the close of tbis epoch and indicate several later stages of culture. Prehistoric art is represented by etchings from Bellary, From the Kappagallu in the Bellary district have been reported more than twenty groups of birds and beasts of various degrees of artistic execution. Among them occur the figures of obscure human beings and elephants. The most interesting of these figures is a hunting scene in which two men are seen proceeding towards a bull with upraised right arms, as if for hurling javelines and having something like shields on their left arms. There is