Antiquity of the Chitradurga District

There is evidence to show that man has lived in the area Antiquity of comprising this district since very remote times, at least as remote the district as the 3rd or the 4th millennium B.C. The pre-historic remains found in this district have been described in detail later in the section on Archaeology. Suffice it to say here that while some of the potsherds found at the pre-historic sites in this district are similar to those found in the Indus valley, Sumer and Crete of the 3rd millennium B.C., the local microlithic culture called the ' Roppa culture ' has been found to be similar to the 'Campiguian culture' of France, belonging to the period from 8000 B.C. to 6000 B.C.

Courtesy : Gazetteer of India, Chitradurga District, 1967.